To The Muse, Written At The Age Of Fourteen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCC EFGFHIIJJ KLKLLMNMM| Ill fated maid in whose unhappy train | A |
| Chill poverty and misery are seen | B |
| Anguish and discontent the unhappy bane | A |
| Of life and blackener of each brighter scene | B |
| Why to thy votaries dost thou give to feel | C |
| So keenly all the scorns the jeers of life | D |
| Why not endow them to endure the strife | D |
| With apathy's invulnerable steel | C |
| Of self content and ease each torturing wound to heal | C |
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| Ah who would taste your self deluding joys | E |
| That lure the unwary to a wretched doom | F |
| That bid fair views and flattering hopes arise | G |
| Then hurl them headlong to a lasting tomb | F |
| What is the charm which leads thy victims on | H |
| To persevere in paths that lead to woe | I |
| What can induce them in that route to go | I |
| In which innumerous before have gone | J |
| And died in misery poor and woe begone | J |
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| Yet can I ask what charms in thee are found | K |
| I who have drunk from thine ethereal rill | L |
| And tasted all the pleasures that abound | K |
| Upon Parnassus' loved Aonian hill | L |
| I through whose soul the Muse's strains aye thrill | L |
| Oh I do feel the spell with which I'm tied | M |
| And though our annals fearful stories tell | N |
| How Savage languish'd and how Otway died | M |
| Yet must I persevere let whate'er will betide | M |
Henry Kirk White
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To The Muse, Written At The Age Of Fourteen is a poem by Henry Kirk White. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.