Lavinia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNONPQRC SETUVWXWYZA2WB2WC2D2 CE2| The lovely young Lavinia once had friends | A |
| And fortune smiled deceitful on her birth | B |
| For in her helpless years deprived of all | C |
| Of every stay save innocence and Heaven | D |
| She with her widow'd mother feeble old | E |
| And poor lived in a cottage far retired | F |
| Among the windings of a woody vale | G |
| By solitude and deep surrounding shades | H |
| But more by bashful modesty conceal'd | I |
| Together thus they shunn'd the cruel scorn | J |
| Which virtue sunk to poverty would meet | K |
| From giddy passion and low minded pride | L |
| Almost on Nature's common bounty fed | M |
| Like the gay birds that sung them to repose | N |
| Content and careless of to morrow's fare | O |
| Her form was fresher than the morning rose | N |
| When the dew wets its leaves unstain'd and pure | P |
| As is the lily or the mountain snow | Q |
| The modest virtues mingled in her eyes | R |
| Still on the ground dejected darting all | C |
| Their humid means into the blooming flowers | S |
| Or when the mournful tale her mother told | E |
| Of what her faithless fortune promised once | T |
| Thrill'd in her thought they like the dewy star | U |
| Of evening shone in tears A native grace | V |
| Sat fair proportion'd on her polish'd limbs | W |
| Veil'd in a simple robe their best attire | X |
| Beyond the pomp of dress for loveliness | W |
| Needs not the foreign aid of ornament | Y |
| But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most | Z |
| Thoughtless of beauty she was beauty's self | A2 |
| Recluse amid the close embowering woods | W |
| As in the hollow breast of Apennine | B2 |
| Beneath the shelter of encircling hills | W |
| A myrtle rises far from human eye | C2 |
| And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild | D2 |
| So flourish'd blooming and unseen by all | C |
| The sweet Lavinia | E2 |
James Thomson
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