Ode To Fancy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O parent of each lovely MuseA
Thy spirit o'er my soul diffuseB
O'er all my artless songs presideC
My footsteps to thy temple guideC
To offer at thy turf built shrineD
In golden cups no costly wineD
No murder'd fatling of the flockE
But flowers and honey from the rockE
O Nymph with loosely flowing hairF
With buskin'd leg and bosom bareF
Thy waist with myrtle girdle boundG
Thy brows with Indian feathers crown'dG
Waving in thy snowy handH
An all commanding magic wandI
Of pow'r to bid fresh gardens blowJ
'Mid cheerless Lapland's barren snowJ
Whose rapid wings thy flight conveyK
Through air and over earth and seaL
While the vast various landscape liesM
Conspicuous to thy piercing eyesM
O lover of the desert hailN
Say in what deep and pathless valeN
Or on what hoary mountain's sideC
'Mid fall of waters you resideC
'Mid broken rocks a rugged sceneO
With green and grassy dales betweenO
'Mid forests dark of aged oakP
Ne'er echoing with the woodman's strokeP
Where never human art appear'dQ
Nor ev'n one straw roof'd cot was rear'dQ
Where Nature seems to sit aloneR
Majestic on a craggy throneR
Tell me the path sweet wand'rer tellS
To thy unknown sequester'd cellS
Where woodbines cluster round the doorT
Where shells and moss o'erlay the floorT
And on whose top an hawthorn blowsU
Amid whose thickly woven boughsV
Some nightingale still builds her nestW
Each evening warbling thee to restW
There lay me by the haunted streamX
Rapt in some wild poetic dreamX
In converse while methinks I roveY
With Spenser through a fairy groveY
'Till suddenly awoke I hearZ
Strange whisper'd music in my earZ
And my glad soul in bliss is drown'dG
By the sweetly soothing soundG
Me Goddess by the right hand leadA2
Sometimes through the yellow meadB2
Where Joy and white rob'd Peace resortC2
And Venus keeps her festive courtC2
Where Mirth and Youth each evening meetD2
And lightly trip with nimble feetD2
Nodding their lily crowned headsE2
Where Laughter rose lipp'd Hebe leadsF2
Where Echo walks steep hills amongG2
List'ning to the shepherd's songH2
Yet not those flowery fields of joyI2
Can long my pensive mind employI2
Haste Fancy from these scenes of follyL
To meet the matron MelancholyL
Goddess of the tearful eyeJ2
That loves to fold her arms and sighJ2
Let us with silent footsteps goJ
To charnels and the house of woeJ
To Gothic churches vaults and tombsK2
Where each sad night some virgin comesL2
With throbbing breast and faded cheekM2
Her promis'd bridegroom's urn to seekM2
Or to some abbey's mould'ring tow'rsL2
Where to avoid cold wintry show'rsL2
The naked beggar shivering liesL2
While whistling tempests round her riseL2
And trembles lest the tottering wallN2
Should on her sleeping infants fallN2
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Now let us louder strike the lyreO2
For my heart glows with martial fireP2
I feel I feel with sudden heatD2
My big tumultuous bosom beatD2
The trumpet's clangours pierce my earZ
A thousand widows' shrieks I hearZ
Give me another horse I cryJ2
Lo the base Gallic squadrons flyJ2
Whence is this rage what spirit sayL2
To battle hurries me awayL2
'Tis Fancy in her fiery carQ2
Transports me to the thickest warT
There whirls me o'er the hills of slainR2
Where Tumult and Destruction reignR2
Where mad with pain the wounded steedB2
Tramples the dying and the deadA2
Where giant Terror stalks aroundG
With sullen joy surveys the groundG
And pointing to th' ensanguin'd fieldS2
Shakes his dreadful Gorgon shieldS2
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O guide me from this horrid sceneO
To high arch'd walks and alleys greenO
Which lovely Laura seeks to shunT2
The fervours of the mid day sunT2
The pangs of absence O removeU2
For thou canst place me near my loveV2
Canst fold in visionary blissL2
And let me think I steal a kissL2
While her ruby lips dispenseL2
Luscious nectar's quintessenceL2
When young ey'd Spring profusely throwsL2
From her green lap the pink and roseL2
When the soft turtle of the daleN
To Summer tells her tender taleN
When Autumn cooling caverns seeksL2
And stains with wine his jolly cheeksL2
When Winter like poor pilgrim oldW2
Shakes his silver beard with coldW2
At every season let my earZ
Thy solemn whispers Fancy hearZ
O warm enthusiastic maidX2
Without thy powerful vital aidX2
That breathes an energy divineD
That gives a soul to every lineD
Ne'er may I strive with lips profaneR2
To utter an unhallow'd strainR2
Nor dare to touch the sacred stringY2
Save when with smiles thou bid'st me singY2
O hear our prayer O hither comeZ2
From thy lamented Shakespear's tombA3
On which thou lov'st to sit at eveB3
Musing o'er thy darling's graveC3
O queen of numbers once againD3
Animate some chosen swainR2
Who fill'd with unexhausted fireP2
May boldly smite the sounding lyreO2
Who with some new unequall'd songH2
May rise above the rhyming throngH2
O'er all our list'ning passions reignR2
O'erwhelm our souls with joy and painR2
With terror shake with pity moveU2
Rouse with revenge or melt with loveV2
O deign t' attend his evening walkE3
With him in groves and grottoes talkE3
Teach him to scorn with frigid artF3
Feebly to touch th' unraptur'd heartF3
Like lightning let his mighty verseL2
The bosom's inmost foldings pierceL2
With native beauties win applauseL2
Beyond cold critics' studied lawsL2
O let each Muse's fame increaseL2
O bid Britannia rival GreeceL2

Joseph Warton



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