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Zophiel. Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Thou who wert born of Psyche and of Love	A
And fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast	B
Painting oh power adored	C
My country's sons have poured	C
To thee their orisons and thou hast blest	B
Their votive sighs nor vainly have they strove	D
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Thou who art wont to soothe the varied pain	E
That ceaseless throbs at absent lover's heart	F
Who first bestowed thine aid	G
On the young Rhodian maid FN	E
When doomed from him whose love was life to part	F
From a lone bard accept an humble heartfelt strain	E
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FN I do not positively recollect whether the incident here described is supposed to have transpired at Rhodes Corinth or some other place and have not at present the means for ascertaining Painting is called the Rhodian Art but I know not if on account of its having been first invented there or for the eminence of the painters which Rhodes produced which was so great that an illustrious enemy refrained from burning the city which he had in his power out of respect to the genius of Protogenes one of its most celebrated artists	H
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'Twas the last night the idol youth might stay	I
E'en now to bear him from the rosy isle FN	E
The galley waits he sleeps	J
She silent wakes and weeps	J
Watches his lips that in light dreaming smile	K
Twines her soul round his charms and dreads the coming day	I
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The dazzling drops her pitious eyes that blind	L
Hushing her struggling sobs she wiped away	I
Her tapers paly light	M
Fell on the marble white	M
Beside the couch where half reclined he lay	I
And of his beauteous face the shadow well defined	L
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Loved deity then first thou cam'st on earth	N
Pity for truth in sorrow called thee here	O
Sudden the fair inspired	P
With a new thought was fired	P
Her hand urged on by hope yet breathing not for fear	Q
She traced the unreal shade 'twas hers an art had birth	N
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FN Rhodes in the Greek tongue signifies rose or roses After being made the scene of the loves of Venus and Apollo the isle says Demoustier became an enchanting garden and soon took the name of the flowers it produced	R
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By dearest tenderest feelings still allured	S
Thou sought'st our wilds far blooming o'er the deep	T
Pleased with the soft employ	U
A fair haired cherub boy	U
O'er a more helpless child his watch to keep	T
Was placed and from his sports the long restraint endured	S
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Fair as the hues of heaven the innocent	V
Lay like a phantom born of some mild soul	W
A drop for it had wept	X
A moment ere it slept	X
O'er its light vermil cheek was seen to roll	W
And its young guardian's heart drank beauty as he leant	V
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That nameless wish to nought but genius known	E
Indefinite but in each fibre felt	Y
Whispered The boy elate	Z
Burned to perpetuate	Z
The full pervasive bliss enrapt he knelt	Y
Thou saw'st a pencil's by and infant West's thine own	E
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Soon the plumed savage from his leafy home	A2
Emerging saw and loved the gifted child	B2
And soon beneath their care	C2
His hands the tints prepare	C2
That strain their shapely limbs in grandeur wild	B2
As thro' their arching woods the desert warriors roam FN	E
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FN Sir Benjamin West when a child was presented with the primitive colours by an Indian See Galt's Life of West	B
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Please he repaid their plans nor those alone	E
Sped by his strength the painted arrow flew	D2
And oft the soaring bird	P
For shape or hue preferred	P
To make a model for his art he knew	D2
While sovereign Nature saw and smiled upon her throne	E
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Bold Science who earth's caverned depths explores	E2
And soars triumphant 'mid new worlds of light	M
Lays bare the heaving heart FN	E
Nor suffers life to part	F
Lures the red lightning from its stormy height	M
Oft goddess kneels to thee to save his precious stores	E2
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FN An operation was performed at Paris by M Richerande in which the heart of a patient who afterwards recovered was laid bare	C2
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The rough browed warrior on the midnight deck	F2
While stealing softness thro' his pulses glides	G2
By the moon's pensive rays	H2
Regards with lengthened gaze	H2
The pictured form his scarry bosom hides	G2
By day that tho' death grasp hangs smiling at his neck	F2
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When fate has torn from the fond mother's arms	I2
The tender hope her bosom fed to thee	J2
She flies and ere decay	I
Can mar his beauteous prey	I
Her arching eyes amid their grief can see	J2
Still dawning bright to them its early blighted charms	I2
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The generous youth who fired by love of fame	K2
A victim at her bloody altars fell	L2
To the beloved ones reft	M
By aid of thee has left	M
His form his lip his ardent glance to tell	L2
How fair was he on earth who left it for a name	K2
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The patriot here a moment let my strain	E
Tremble before thy Stuart who but he	J2
Could bid mild Washington	E
His god loved labours done	E
Thus sit before us breathing majesty	J2
And in his deep blue eye still life and soul retain	E
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Methinks the while I gaze each graceful line	E
So light imprinted on his forehead fair	C2
Where Wisdom sits serene	E
Of every sense the queen	E
Seems as an embryo empire still were there	C2
While still his ample breast swells with the vast design	E
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And fondly o'er the mellow tints I pause	M2
Of her whose vivid touch shames not her sire	N2
Bold Genius in his pride	M
Has marked her as his bride	M
On his bright pinions bids her soul aspire	O2
Nor pay the tribute due by tardier Nature's laws FN	E
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FN While composing this ode the writer was shown a beautiful specimen from the hand of a young daughter of the celebrated Stuart who entirely devoted herself to the art	M
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But guard thee well young J e in his embrace	P2
How many seal with death their ectasy	P2
Too deep intense and wild	M
For one so late a child	M
I fear me lest the proffered transport be	J2
That every earthlier joy absorbent would efface	P2
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Soft is thy form amid the unpent air	C2
Pay rosy exercise her just demands	P2
Tho' heaven thy lone hours woo	D2
Earth still demands her due	D2
Gay health to guard e'en genius' palace stands	P2
And when she takes her flight e'en genius must despair	C2
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Nor those alone doomed to incarnate birth	N
Painting death baffler is it thine to save	Q2
The heavenly shapes that flit	M
When the entranced fit	M
Is on and the charmed soul forgets its earth	N
Thou bidst to earthly eyes their sky dipt vestments wave	Q2
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The radiant visions Fancy's wand uprears	P2
When Poesy around has spread her spell	L2
Like summer flowrets dies	P2
Refresh the enchanted skies	P2
Where soft as air and lovelier for her fears	P2
Bright in her golden robes flies fair haired Florimell FN	E
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FN The flight of Florimell from a scene in Spencer's Faery Queen is an exquisite little picture by Allston in the possession of a private gentleman	E
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The miracles in holy record kept	M
Done ere one cheering ray of distant light	M
Thro' death's dark portals shown	E
At thy command alone	E
Still still reacted meet the astonished sight	M
Tho' rolling ages o'er the scene have swept	M
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In this far distant land which the great deep	T
Perchance embosomed when that dust was rife	R2
The pale unconscious dead	M
On the strown relics laid	M
Of old Elisha in his passing sleep	T
Still at the hallowed touch starts back to warmth and life FN	E
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FN Every one must recollect the sublime picture here alluded to	D2
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Sweet when the soul is weary of the ills	P2
That stern reality presents to dwell	L2
On beauteous forms they smooth	S2
The ruffled sense and sooth	S2
The heart with soft perfection till a spell	L2
Blends with its troublous pulse and all its achings stills	P2
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And who can look nor own the pencil's power	N2
Where tender Ariadne happy yet FN	E
Lies in a dream of bliss	P2
The last half pitying kiss	P2
By falsehood given her sleeping lip has met	M
That still seems hovering there like Zephyr o'er a flower	N2
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FN Vanderlyn's Ariadne	E
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The dawn breaks slowly o'er the distant main	E
To come no more her ingrate hero flies	P2
While thoughts confiding speak	T2
Upon her mantling cheek	T2
Illusion chains the sense in lowest sighs	P2
Whispering we fear to see her wake to pain	E
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But whither wandering whatsoe'er has gained	M
Long conning book and heart the white haired sage	U2
Cause and remote effect	M
In living semblance dect	M
The truths divine of many a moral page	U2
Thy hand harmonious Peale hath at a glance explained	M