Ode Ii: On The Winter-solstice Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
The radiant ruler of the year	B
At length his wintry goal attains	C
Soon to reverse the long career	B
And northward bend his steady reins	C
Now piercing half Potosi's height	D
Prone rush the fiery floods of light	D
Ripening the mountain's silver stores	E
While in some cavern's horrid shade	F
The panting Indian hides his head	G
And oft the approach of eve implores	E
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II	A
But lo on this deserted coast	H
How pale the sun how thick the air	I
Mustering his storms a sordid host	H
Lo winter desolates the year	B
The fields resign their latest bloom	J
No more the breezes waft perfume	J
No more the streams in music roll	K
But snows fall dark or rains resound	L
And while great nature mourns around	L
Her griefs infect the human soul	K
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III	A
Hence the loud city's busy throngs	M
Urge the warm bowl and splendid fire	N
Harmonious dances festive songs	M
Against the spiteful heaven conspire	N
Meantime perhaps with tender fears	O
Some village dame the curfew hears	P
While round the hearth her children play	Q
At morn their father went abroad	R
The moon is sunk and deep the road	S
She sighs and wonders at his stay	Q
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IV	-
But thou my lyre awake arise	T
And hail the sun's returning force	U
Even now he climbs the northern skies	T
And health and hope attend his course	U
Then louder howl the a rial waste	V
Be earth with keener cold imbrac'd	V
Yet gentle hours advance their wing	W
And fancy mocking winter's might	V
With flowers and dews and streaming light	V
Already decks the newborn spring	W
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V	-
O fountain of the golden day	V
Could mortal vows promote thy speed	V
How soon before thy vernal ray	V
Should each unkindly damp recede	V
How soon each hovering tempest fly	A
Whose stores for mischief arm the sky	A
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
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VI	A
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
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VII	A
How pleasing wears the wintry night	V
Spent with the old illustrious dead	V
While by the taper's trembling light	V
I seem those awful scenes to tread	V
Where chiefs or legislators lie	A
Whose triumphs move before my eye	A
In arms and antique pomp array'd	V
While now i taste the Ionian song	F2
Now bend to Plato's godlike tongue	G2
Resounding through the olive shade	V
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VIII	A
But should some cheerful equal friend	V
Bid leave the studious page awhile	H2
Let mirth on wisdom then attend	V
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	V
What flattering dreams each bosom warm	J2
While absence heightening every charm	K2
Invokes the slow returning May	V
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IX	D2
May thou delight of heaven and earth	L2
When will thy genial star arise	D2
The auspicious morn which gives thee birth	L2
Shall bring Eudora to my eyes	D2
Within her sylvan haunt behold	V
As in the happy garden old	V
She moves like that primeval fair	I
Thither ye silver sounding lyres	D2
Ye tender smiles ye chaste desires	D2
Fond hope and mutual faith repair	I
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X	D2
And if believing love can read	V
His better omens in her eye	A
Then shall my fears o charming maid	V
And every pain of absence die	A
Then shall my jocund harp attun'd	V
To thy true ear with sweeter sound	V
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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