To A Pianiste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHJKK| I SAW thee once I see thee now | A |
| Thy pure young face thy noble mien | B |
| Thy truthful eyes thy radiant brow | A |
| All childlike lovely and serene | B |
| Rapt in harmonious visions proud | C |
| Scarce conscious of the audient crowd | C |
| - | |
| I heard thee when the instrument | D |
| Possessed and quickened by thy soul | E |
| Impassioned and intelligent | D |
| Responded to thy full control | E |
| With all the treasures of its dower | F |
| Its sweetest and its grandest power | G |
| - | |
| I saw and heard with such delight | H |
| As rarely charms our lower sphere | I |
| Blind Handel would not miss his sight | H |
| Thy beauty voiced thus in his ear | J |
| Beethoven in that face would see | K |
| His glorious unheard harmony | K |
James Thomson
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