Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACDDEFGGHHIIGGJ G| O Liberty thou goddess heavenly bright | A |
| profuse of bliss and pregnant with delight | A |
| Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign | B |
| And smiling Plenty leads thy smiling train | B |
| Eased of her load Subjection grows more light | A |
| And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight | A |
| Giv'st beauty to the sun and pleasures to the day | C |
| thee goddess thee Britannia's isle adores | D |
| How oft has she exhausted all her stores | D |
| How oft on fields of death thy presence sought | E |
| Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought | F |
| On foreign mountains may the sun refine | G |
| the grape's soft juice and mellow it in wine | G |
| With citron groves adorn a distant soil | H |
| And the fat olives swell with floods of oil | H |
| We envy not the warmer clime that lies | I |
| in ten degrees of more indulgent skies | I |
| Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine | G |
| Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine | G |
| 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle | J |
| And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains shine | G |
Joseph Addison
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Immortality poem by Joseph Addison
Best Poems of Joseph Addison