To The Duchess Of York, On Her Return From Scotland In The Year 1682. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHHHIJKKLMNNO OPPQRSSTTUUUIJVVWWOO XBCCTT| When factious rage to cruel exile drove | A |
| The queen of beauty and the court of love | B |
| The Muses droop'd with their forsaken arts | C |
| And the sad Cupids broke their useless darts | C |
| Our fruitful plains to wilds and deserts turn'd | D |
| Like Eden's face when banish'd man it mourn'd | E |
| Love was no more when loyalty was gone | F |
| The great supporter of his awful throne | G |
| Love could no longer after beauty stay | H |
| But wander'd northward to the verge of day | H |
| As if the sun and he had lost their way | H |
| But now the illustrious nymph return'd again | I |
| Brings every grace triumphant in her train | J |
| The wondering Nereids though they raised no storm | K |
| Foreflow'd her passage to behold her form | K |
| Some cried A Venus some A Thetis pass'd | L |
| But this was not so fair nor that so chaste | M |
| Far from her sight flew Faction Strife and Pride | N |
| And Envy did but look on her and died | N |
| Whate'er we suffer'd from our sullen fate | O |
| Her sight is purchased at an easy rate | O |
| Three gloomy years against this day were set | P |
| But this one mighty sum has clear'd the debt | P |
| Like Joseph's dream but with a better doom | Q |
| The famine past the plenty still to come | R |
| For her the weeping heavens become serene | S |
| For her the ground is clad in cheerful green | S |
| For her the nightingales are taught to sing | T |
| And Nature has for her delay'd the spring | T |
| The Muse resumes her long forgotten lays | U |
| And Love restored his ancient realm surveys | U |
| Recalls our beauties and revives our plays | U |
| His waste dominions peoples once again | I |
| And from her presence dates his second reign | J |
| But awful charms on her fair forehead sit | V |
| Dispensing what she never will admit | V |
| Pleasing yet cold like Cynthia's silver beam | W |
| The people's wonder and the poet's theme | W |
| Distemper'd Zeal Sedition canker'd Hate | O |
| No more shall vex the Church and tear the State | O |
| No more shall Faction civil discords move | X |
| Or only discords of too tender love | B |
| Discord like that of music's various parts | C |
| Discord that makes the harmony of hearts | C |
| Discord that only this dispute shall bring | T |
| Who best should love the Duke and serve the King | T |
John Dryden
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