Ode Iii: To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDC AEFEFGHF AAIAJKKL LFMFMAAMN LOPOQQR ASTSTUUT AAFAFMMF AMVMVMMV USFSFWWF

IA
Indeed my Ph dria if to findB
That wealth can female wishes gainC
Had e'er disturb'd your thoughtful mindB
Or cost one serious moment's painC
I should have said that all the rulesD
You learn'd of moralists and schoolsD
Were very useless very vainC
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IIA
Yet I perhaps mistake the caseE
Say though with this heroic airF
Like one that holds a nobler chaceE
You try the tender loss to bearF
Does not your heart renounce your tongueG
Seems not my censure strangely wrongH
To count it such a slight affairF
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IIIA
When Hesper gilds the shaded skyA
Oft as you seek the well known groveI
Methinks I see you cast your eyeA
Back to the morning scenes of loveJ
Each pleasing word you heard her sayK
Her gentle look her graceful wayK
Again your struggling fancy moveL
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IVL
Then tell me is your soul intireF
Does wisdom calmly hold her throneM
Then can you question each desireF
Bid this remain and that begoneM
No tear half starting from your eyeA
No kindling blush you know not whyA
No stealing sigh nor stifled groanM
Away with this unmanly moodN
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VL
See where the hoary churl appearsO
Whose hand hath seiz'd the favorite goodP
Which you reserv'd for happier yearsO
While side by side the blushing maidQ
Shrinks from his visage half afraidQ
Spite of the sickly joy she wearsR
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VIA
Ye guardian powers of love and fameS
This chaste harmonious pair beholdT
And thus reward the generous flameS
Of all who barter vows for goldT
O bloom of youth o tender charmsU
Well buried in a dotard's armsU
O equal price of beauty soldT
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VIIA
Cease then to gaze with looks of loveA
Bid her adieu the venal fairF
Unworthy she your bliss to proveA
Then wherefore should she prove your careF
No lay your myrtle garland downM
And let awhile the willow's crownM
With luckier omens bind your hairF
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VIIIA
O just escap'd the faithless mainM
Though driven unwilling on the landV
To guide your favor'd steps againM
Behold your better genius standV
Where truth revolves her page divineM
Where virtue leads to honor's shrineM
Behold he lifts his awful handV
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IXU
Fix but on these your ruling aimS
And time the sire of manly careF
Will fancy's dazzling colors tameS
A soberer dress will beauty wearF
Then shall esteem by knowledge ledW
Inthrone within your heart and headW
Some happier love some truer fairF

Mark Akenside



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