A Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFH IJKLMNMNOPQPRBSRRB| The Shape alone let others prize | A |
| The Features of the Fair | B |
| I look for Spirit in her Eyes | A |
| And Meaning in her Air | B |
| A Damask Cheek an Iv'ry Arm | C |
| Shall ne'er my Wishes win | D |
| Give me an animated Form | E |
| That speaks a Mind within | D |
| A Face where awful Honour shines | F |
| Where Sense and Sweetness move | G |
| And Angel Innocence refines | F |
| The Tenderness of Love | H |
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| These are the Soul of Beauty's frame | I |
| Without whose vital Aid | J |
| Unfinish'd all her Features seem | K |
| And all her Roses dead | L |
| But ah where both their Charms unite | M |
| How perfect is the View | N |
| With ev'ry Image of Delight | M |
| With Graces ever new | N |
| Of Pow'r to charm the greatest Woe | O |
| The wildest Rage controul | P |
| Diffusing Mildness o'er the Brow | Q |
| And Rapture thro' the Soul | P |
| Their Pow'r but faintly to express | R |
| All Language must despair | B |
| But go behold | S |
| Arpasia's | R |
| Face | R |
| And read it perfect there | B |
Mark Akenside
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