If Rightly Tuneful Bards Decide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDCDEEFGFGHHIJ IJKKLMLMNN| If rightly tuneful bards decide | A |
| If it be fix'd in love's decrees | B |
| That beauty ought not to be tried | A |
| But by its native power to please | B |
| Then tell me youths and lovers tell | C |
| What fair can Amoret excell | C |
| Behold that bright unsullied smile | C |
| And wisdom speaking in her mien | D |
| Yet she so artless all the while | C |
| So little studious to be seen | D |
| We nought but instant gladness know | E |
| Nor think to whom the gift we owe | E |
| But neither music nor the powers | F |
| Of youth and mirth and frolick cheer | G |
| Add half that sunshine to the hours | F |
| Or make life's prospect half so clear | G |
| As memory brings it to the eye | H |
| From scenes where Amoret was by | H |
| Yet not a satirist could there | I |
| Or fault or indiscretion find | J |
| Nor any prouder sage declare | I |
| One virtue pictur'd in his mind | J |
| Whose form with lovelier colours glows | K |
| Than Amoret's demeanor shows | K |
| This sure is beauty's happiest part | L |
| This gives the most unbounded sway | M |
| This shall inchant the subject heart | L |
| When rose and lily fade away | M |
| And she be still in spite of time | N |
| Sweet Amoret in all her prime | N |
Mark Akenside
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