My Lady Nature And Her Daughters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEFFGGHHIEJJ AKAKLLMMJJGGGGNOGG PDPDGGQQRSPPGGTTUU UVUVWWXXYYDD ZZA2A2B2C2 GJD2E2F2F2GG EEYYG2G2HHDD| Ladies well I deem delight | A |
| In comely tire to move | B |
| Soft and delicate and bright | A |
| Are the robes they love | C |
| Silks where hues alternate play | D |
| Shawls and scarfs and mantles gay | D |
| Gold and gems and crisp d hair | E |
| Fling their light o'er lady fair | E |
| 'Tis not waste nor sinful pride | F |
| Name them not nor fault beside | F |
| But her very cheerfulness | G |
| Prompts and weaves the curious dress | G |
| While her holy thoughts still roam | H |
| Mid birth friends and scenes of home | H |
| Pleased to please whose praise is dear | I |
| Glitters she she glitters there | E |
| And she has a pattern found her | J |
| In Nature's glowing world around her | J |
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| Nature loves as lady bright | A |
| In gayest guise to shine | K |
| All forms of grace all tints of light | A |
| Fringe her robe divine | K |
| Sun lit heaven and rain bow cloud | L |
| Changeful main and mountain proud | L |
| Branching tree and meadow green | M |
| All are deck'd in broider'd sheen | M |
| Not a bird on bough propp'd tower | J |
| Insect slim nor tiny flower | J |
| Stone nor spar nor shell of sea | G |
| But is fair in its degree | G |
| 'Tis not pride this vaunt of beauty | G |
| Well she 'quits her trust of duty | G |
| And amid her gorgeous state | N |
| Bright and bland and delicate | O |
| Ever beaming from her face | G |
| Praise of a Father's love we trace | G |
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| Ladies shrinking from the view | P |
| Of the prying day | D |
| In tranquil diligence pursue | P |
| Their heaven appointed way | D |
| Noiseless duties silent cares | G |
| Mercies lighting unawares | G |
| Modest influence working good | Q |
| Gifts by the keen heart understood | Q |
| Such as viewless spirits might give | R |
| These they love in these they live | S |
| Mighty Nature speeds her through | P |
| Her daily toils in silence too | P |
| Calmly rolls her giant spheres | G |
| Sheds by stealth her dew's kind tears | G |
| Cheating sage's vex'd pursuit | T |
| Churns the sap matures the fruit | T |
| And her deft hand still concealing | U |
| Kindles motion life and feeling | U |
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| Ladies love to laugh and sing | U |
| To rouse the chord's full sound | V |
| Or to join the festive ring | U |
| Where dancers gather round | V |
| Not a sight so fair on earth | W |
| As a lady's graceful mirth | W |
| Not a sound so chasing pain | X |
| As a lady's thrilling strain | X |
| Nor is Nature left behind | Y |
| In her lighter moods of mind | Y |
| Calm her duties to fulfil | D |
| In her glee a prattler still | D |
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| Bird and beast of every sort | Z |
| Hath its antic and its sport | Z |
| Chattering brook and dancing gnat | A2 |
| Subtle cry of evening bat | A2 |
| Moss uncouth and twigs grotesque | B2 |
| These are Nature's picturesque | C2 |
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| Where the birth of Poesy | G |
| Its fancy and its fire | J |
| Nature's earth and sea and sky | D2 |
| Fervid thoughts inspire | E2 |
| Where do wealth and power find rest | F2 |
| When hopes have fail'd or toil oppress'd | F2 |
| Parks and lawns and deer and trees | G |
| Nature's work restore them ease | G |
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| Rare the rich the gifted rare | E |
| Where shall work day souls repair | E |
| Unennobled unrefined | Y |
| From the rude world and unkind | Y |
| Who shall friend their lowly lot | G2 |
| High born Nature answers not | G2 |
| Leave her in her starry dome | H |
| Seek we lady lighted home | H |
| Nature 'mid the spheres bears sway | D |
| Ladies rule where hearts obey | D |
John Henry Newman
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