To A Friend On His Travels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFADGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOOPQRRIISSAADD| From this vile town immers'd in smoke and care | A |
| To you who brighten in a purer air | A |
| Your faithful friend conveys her tenderest thought | B |
| Though now perhaps neglected and forgot | C |
| May blooming health your wonted mirth restore | D |
| And every pleasure crown your every hour | E |
| Caress'd esteem'd and lov'd your merit known | F |
| And foreign lands admire you like your own | F |
| Whilst I in silence various fortunes bear | A |
| Distracted with the rage of bosom war | D |
| My restless fever tears my changeful brain | G |
| With mix'd ideas of delight and pain | G |
| Sometimes soft views my morning dreams employ | H |
| In the faint dawn of visionary joy | H |
| Which rigid reason quickly drives away | I |
| I seek the shade and fly from rising day | I |
| In pleasing madness meet some moment's ease | J |
| And fondly cherish my belov'd disease | J |
| If female weakness melt my woman's mind | K |
| At least no weakness in the choice I find | K |
| Not sooth'd to softness by a warbling flute | L |
| Nor the bought merit of a birthday suit | L |
| Not lost my heart by the surprising skill | M |
| In opera tunes in dancing or quadrille | M |
| The only charm my inclination moves | N |
| Is such a virtue Heaven itself approves | N |
| A soul superior to each vulgar view | O |
| Great steady gentle generous and true | O |
| How I regret my trifling hours past | P |
| And look with sorrow oe'r the dreary waste | Q |
| In false pursuits and vanity bestow'd | R |
| The perfect image of a dirty road | R |
| Through puddles oft o'er craggy rocks I stray | I |
| A tiresome dull uncomfortable way | I |
| And after toiling long through thick and thin | S |
| To reach some meanly mercenary inn | S |
| The bills are high and very bad the fare | A |
| I curse the wretched entertainment there | A |
| And jogging on resolve to stop no more | D |
| Where gaudy signs invite me to the door | D |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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