Ode Ii(ii); On The Winter Soltice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFDGHGAIIJKKJ LMLMNOPQRPSTSTUUVUUV UUUUWWXYYXZA2B2C2D2D 2XE2E2XUUUUWWUF2G2UU H2UI2XXUJ2K2UL2SL2SU UHSSHUWUWUUF2M2M2F2The radiant ruler of the year | A |
At length his wintry goal attains | B |
Soon to reverse the long career | A |
And northward bend his steady reins | B |
Now piercing half Potosi's height | C |
Prone rush the fiery floods of light | C |
Ripening the mountain's silver stores | D |
While in some cavern's horrid shade | E |
The panting Indian hides his head | F |
And oft the approach of eve implores | D |
But lo on this deserted coast | G |
How pale the sun how thick the air | H |
Mustering his storms a sordid host | G |
Lo winter desolates the year | A |
The fields resign their latest bloom | I |
No more the breezes waft perfume | I |
No more the streams in music roll | J |
But snows fall dark or rains resound | K |
And while great nature mourns around | K |
Her griefs infect the human soul | J |
Hence the loud city's busy throngs | L |
Urge the warm bowl and splendid fire | M |
Harmonious dances festive songs | L |
Against the spiteful heaven conspire | M |
Meantime perhaps with tender fears | N |
Some village dame the curfew hears | O |
While round the hearth her children play | P |
At morn their father went abroad | Q |
The moon is sunk and deep the road | R |
She sighs and wonders at his stay | P |
But thou my lyre awake arise | S |
And hail the sun's returning force | T |
Even now he climbs the northern skies | S |
And health and hope attend his course | T |
Then louder howl the aerial waste | U |
Be earth with keener cold imbrac'd | U |
Yet gentle hours advance their wing | V |
And fancy mocking winter's might | U |
With flowers and dews and streaming light | U |
Already decks the newborn spring | V |
O fountain of the golden day | U |
Could mortal vows promote thy speed | U |
How soon before thy vernal ray | U |
Should each unkindly damp recede | U |
How soon each hovering tempest fly | W |
Whose stores for mischief arm the sky | W |
Prompt on our heads to burst amain | X |
To rend the forest from the steep | Y |
Or thundering o'er the Baltic deep | Y |
To whelm the merchant's hopes of gain | X |
But let not man's unequal views | Z |
Presume o'er nature and her laws | A2 |
'Tis his with grateful joy to use | B2 |
The indulgence of the sovran cause | C2 |
Secure that health and beauty springs | D2 |
Through this majestic frame of things | D2 |
Beyond what he can reach to know | X |
And that heaven's all subduing will | E2 |
With good the progeny of ill | E2 |
Attempereth every state below | X |
How pleasing wears the wintry night | U |
Spent with the old illustrious dead | U |
While by the taper's trembling light | U |
I seem those awful scenes to tread | U |
Where chiefs or legislators lie | W |
Whose triumphs move before my eye | W |
In arms and antique pomp array'd | U |
While now I taste the Ionian song | F2 |
Now bend to Plato's godlike tongue | G2 |
Resounding through the olive shade | U |
But should some cheerful equal friend | U |
Bid leave the studious page awhile | H2 |
Let mirth on wisdom then attend | U |
And social ease on learned toil | I2 |
Then while at love's uncareful shrine | X |
Each dictates to the god of wine | X |
Her name whom all his hopes obey | U |
What flattering dreams each bosom warm | J2 |
While absence heightening every charm | K2 |
Invokes the slow returning May | U |
May thou delight of heaven and earth | L2 |
When will thy genial star arise | S |
The auspicious morn which gives thee birth | L2 |
Shall bring Eudora to my eyes | S |
Within her sylvan haunt behold | U |
As in the happy garden old | U |
She moves like that primeval fair | H |
Thither ye silver sounding lyres | S |
Ye tender smiles ye chaste desires | S |
Fond hope and mutual faith repair | H |
And if believing love can read | U |
His better omens in her eye | W |
Then shall my fears o charming maid | U |
And every pain of absence die | W |
Then shall my jocund harp attun'd | U |
To thy true ear with sweeter sound | U |
Pursue the free Horatian song | F2 |
Old Tyne shall listen to my tale | M2 |
And echo down the bordering vale | M2 |
The liquid melody prolong | F2 |
Mark Akenside
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