Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFFE GCGCHHICCI AJAJJJKLLK MMMMJJMGGM NONOJJPQQP JRJRSSMJJM| After T G | A |
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| Ye distant Hills ye smiling glades | B |
| In decent foliage drest | C |
| Where green Sylvanus proudly shades | B |
| The Sirkar's haughty crest | C |
| And ye that in your wider reign | D |
| Like bold adventurers disdain | D |
| The limit set for common clay | E |
| Whose luck whose pen whose power of song | F |
| Distinguish from the vulgar throng | F |
| To walk the flowery way | E |
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| Ah happy Hills Ah genial sky | G |
| Ah Goal where all would end | C |
| Where once and only once did I | G |
| Go largely on the bend | C |
| E'en now the tales that from ye flow | H |
| A fragmentary bliss bestow | H |
| Till once again a doedal boy | I |
| In dreaming dimly of the first | C |
| I seem to take a second burst | C |
| And snatch a tearful joy | I |
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| But tell me Jakko dost thou see | A |
| The same old sprightly crew | J |
| Disport with unembarrassed glee | A |
| As we were wont to do | J |
| What youth in brazen armour cased | J |
| With pliant arm the yielding waist | J |
| To arduous dalliance ensnares | K |
| Who foremost of his peers exalts | L |
| The labours of the devious waltz | L |
| By sitting out the squares | K |
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| Does Prudence gentle Matron force | M |
| On Folly in her 'teens | M |
| The value of a stalking horse | M |
| When hunting Rank and Means | M |
| And is the Summer Widow's mind | J |
| Aggrieved and horrified to find | J |
| That as her male acquaintance grows | M |
| Her female circle pass her by | G |
| With Innuendo's outraged eye | G |
| And Virtue's injured nose | M |
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| Lo in the Vale of Tears beneath | N |
| A grilling troop is seen | O |
| Whom Failure gnaws with rankling teeth | N |
| While Envy turns them green | O |
| This racks the head that scars the pelt | J |
| These bore beneath the ample belt | J |
| Those in the deeper vitals burn | P |
| Lo Want of Leave to fill the cup | Q |
| Hath drunken all our juices up | Q |
| And topped the whole concern | P |
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| To each his billet some succeed | J |
| And some are left to groan | R |
| The latter serve their country's need | J |
| The former serve their own | R |
| Then let the maiden try her wing | S |
| The youth enjoy his roomy fling | S |
| The Single Matron dry her eyes | M |
| As Fate is blind and Life is short | J |
| If Ignorance can give them sport | J |
| 'Twere folly to be wise | M |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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