Mock Panegyric On A Young Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH EJKJ CJLJ MFJF NOEO| In measured verse I'll now rehearse | A |
| The charms of lovely Anna | B |
| And first her mind is unconfined | C |
| Like any vast savannah | B |
| - | |
| Ontario's lake may fitly speak | D |
| Her fancy's ample bound | E |
| Its circuit may on strict survey | F |
| Five hundred miles be found | E |
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| Her wit descends on foes and friends | G |
| Like famed Niagara's fall | H |
| And travellers gaze in wild amaze | I |
| And listen one and all | H |
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| Her judgment sound thick black profound | E |
| Like transatlantic groves | J |
| Dispenses aid and friendly shade | K |
| To all that in it roves | J |
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| If thus her mind to be defined | C |
| America exhausts | J |
| And all that's grand in that great land | L |
| In similes it costs | J |
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| Oh how can I her person try | M |
| To image and portray | F |
| How paint the face the form how trace | J |
| In which those virtues lay | F |
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| Another world must be unfurled | N |
| Another language known | O |
| Ere tongue or sound can publish round | E |
| Her charms of flesh and bone | O |
Jane Austen
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