Against Suspicion; Ode V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDECCEFFCEECGH CIIC JJKEEKLLMJJMCCNOLN PPCCCCQQJJJJRRCJJC| Oh 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 |
| - | |
| 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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