The Happy Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBBBBBBBEEBB BBFFGGHH| He's not the happy man to whom is given | A |
| A plenteous fortune by indulgent Heaven | A |
| Whose gilded roofs on shining columns rise | B |
| And painted walls enchant the gazer's eyes | B |
| Whose table flows with hospitable cheer | C |
| And all the various bounty of the year | C |
| Whose valleys smile whose gardens breathe the spring | D |
| Whose curved mountains bleat and forests sing | D |
| For whom the cooling shade in summer twines | B |
| While his full cellars give their generous wines | B |
| From whose wide fields unbounded autumn pours | B |
| A golden tide into his swelling stores | B |
| Whose winter laughs for whom the liberal gales | B |
| Stretch the big sheet and toiling commerce sails | B |
| Whom yielding crowds attend and pleasure serves | B |
| While youth and health and vigour string his nerves | B |
| E'en not all these in one rich lot combined | E |
| Can make the happy man without the mind | E |
| Where judgment sits clear sighted and surveys | B |
| The chain of reason with unerring gaze | B |
| Where fancy lives and to the brightening eyes | B |
| Her fairer scenes and bolder figures rise | B |
| Where social love exerts her soft command | F |
| And lays the passions with a tender hand | F |
| Whence every virtue flows in rival strife | G |
| And all the moral harmony of life | G |
| Nor canst thou Dodington this truth decline | H |
| Thine is the fortune and the mind is thine | H |
James Thomson
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