Against Suspicion; Ode V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDECCEFFCEECGH CIIC JJKEEKLLMJJMCCNOLN PPCCCCQQJJJJRRCJJCOh fly 'tis dire Suspicion's mien | A |
And meditating plagues unseen | A |
The sorceress hither bends | B |
Behold her torch in gall imbrued | C |
Behold her garment drops with blood | C |
Of lovers and of friends | B |
Fly far Already in your eyes | D |
I see a pale suffusion rise | D |
And soon through every vein | E |
Soon will her secret venom spread | C |
And all your heart and all your head | C |
Imbibe the potent stain | E |
Then many a demon will she raise | F |
To vex your sleep to haunt your ways | F |
While gleams of lost delight | C |
Raise the dark tempest of the brain | E |
As lightning shines across the main | E |
Through whirlwinds and through night | C |
No more can faith or candor move | G |
But each ingenuous deed of love | H |
Which reason would applaud | C |
Now smiling o'er her dark distress | I |
Fancy malignant strives to dress | I |
Like injury and fraud | C |
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Farewell to virtue's peaceful times | J |
Soon will you stoop to act the crimes | J |
Which thus you stoop to fear | K |
Guilt follows guilt and where the train | E |
Begins with wrongs of such a stain | E |
What horrors form the rear | K |
'Tis thus to work her baleful power | L |
Suspicion waits the sullen hour | L |
Of fretfulness and strife | M |
When care the infirmer bosom wrings | J |
Or Eurus waves his murky wings | J |
To damp the seats of life | M |
But come forsake the scene unbless'd | C |
Which first beheld your faithful breast | C |
To groundless fears a prey | N |
Come where with my prevailing lyre | O |
The skies the streams the groves conspire | L |
To charm your doubts away | N |
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Thron'd in the sun's descending car | P |
What power unseen diffuseth far | P |
This tenderness of mind | C |
What genius smiles on yonder flood | C |
What god in whispers from the wood | C |
Bids every thought be kind | C |
O thou whate'er thy awful name | Q |
Whose wisdom our untoward frame | Q |
With social love restrains | J |
Thou who by fair affection's ties | J |
Giv'st us to double all our joys | J |
And half disarm our pains | J |
Let universal candor still | R |
Clear as yon heaven reflecting rill | R |
Preserve my open mind | C |
Nor this nor that man's crooked ways | J |
One sordid doubt within me raise | J |
To injure human kind | C |
Mark Akenside
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