Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KBKB LMLN OPOP QRQR STST UOUO IVIV| A | |
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| Tired with the busy crowds that all the day | B |
| Impatient throng where Folly's altars flame | C |
| My languid powers dissolve with quick decay | B |
| Till genial Sleep repair the sinking frame | C |
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| Hail kind reviver that canst lull the cares | D |
| And every weary sense compose to rest | E |
| Lighten the oppressive load which anguish bears | D |
| And warm with hope the cold desponding breast | E |
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| Touch'd by thy rod from Power's majestic brow | F |
| Drops the gay plume he pines a lowly clown | G |
| And on the cold earth stretch'd the son of Woe | H |
| Quaffs Pleasure's draught and wears a fancied crown | G |
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| When roused by thee on boundless pinions borne | I |
| Fancy to fairy scenes exults to rove | J |
| Now scales the cliff gay gleaming on the morn | I |
| Now sad and silent treads the deepening grove | J |
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| Or skims the main and listens to the storms | K |
| Marks the long waves roll far remote away | B |
| Or mingling with ten thousand glittering forms | K |
| Floats on the gale and basks in purest day | B |
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| Haply ere long pierced by the howling blast | L |
| Through dark and pathless deserts I shall roam | M |
| Plunge down the unfathom'd deep or shrink aghast | L |
| Where bursts the shrieking spectre from the tomb | N |
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| Perhaps loose Luxury's enchanting smile | O |
| Shall lure my steps to some romantic dale | P |
| Where Mirth's light freaks the unheeded hours beguile | O |
| And airs of rapture warble in the gale | P |
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| Instructive emblem of this mortal state | Q |
| Where scenes as various every hour arise | R |
| In swift succession which the hand of Fate | Q |
| Presents then snatches from our wondering eyes | R |
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| Be taught vain man how fleeting all thy joys | S |
| Thy boasted grandeur and thy glittering store | T |
| Death comes and all thy fancied bliss destroys | S |
| Quick as a dream it fades and is no more | T |
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| And sons of Sorrow though the threatening storm | U |
| Of angry Fortune overhang awhile | O |
| Let not her frowns your inward peace deform | U |
| Soon happier days in happier climes shall smile | O |
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| Through Earth's throng'd visions while we toss forlorn | I |
| 'Tis tumult all and rage and restless strife | V |
| But these shall vanish like the dreams of morn | I |
| When Death awakes us to immortal life | V |
James Beattie
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