Ode Iii: To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDC AEFEFGHF AAIAJKKL LFMFMAAMN LOPOQQR ASTSTUUT AAFAFMMF AMVMVMMV USFSFWWFI | A |
Indeed my Ph dria if to find | B |
That wealth can female wishes gain | C |
Had e'er disturb'd your thoughtful mind | B |
Or cost one serious moment's pain | C |
I should have said that all the rules | D |
You learn'd of moralists and schools | D |
Were very useless very vain | C |
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II | A |
Yet I perhaps mistake the case | E |
Say though with this heroic air | F |
Like one that holds a nobler chace | E |
You try the tender loss to bear | F |
Does not your heart renounce your tongue | G |
Seems not my censure strangely wrong | H |
To count it such a slight affair | F |
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III | A |
When Hesper gilds the shaded sky | A |
Oft as you seek the well known grove | I |
Methinks I see you cast your eye | A |
Back to the morning scenes of love | J |
Each pleasing word you heard her say | K |
Her gentle look her graceful way | K |
Again your struggling fancy move | L |
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IV | L |
Then tell me is your soul intire | F |
Does wisdom calmly hold her throne | M |
Then can you question each desire | F |
Bid this remain and that begone | M |
No tear half starting from your eye | A |
No kindling blush you know not why | A |
No stealing sigh nor stifled groan | M |
Away with this unmanly mood | N |
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V | L |
See where the hoary churl appears | O |
Whose hand hath seiz'd the favorite good | P |
Which you reserv'd for happier years | O |
While side by side the blushing maid | Q |
Shrinks from his visage half afraid | Q |
Spite of the sickly joy she wears | R |
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VI | A |
Ye guardian powers of love and fame | S |
This chaste harmonious pair behold | T |
And thus reward the generous flame | S |
Of all who barter vows for gold | T |
O bloom of youth o tender charms | U |
Well buried in a dotard's arms | U |
O equal price of beauty sold | T |
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VII | A |
Cease then to gaze with looks of love | A |
Bid her adieu the venal fair | F |
Unworthy she your bliss to prove | A |
Then wherefore should she prove your care | F |
No lay your myrtle garland down | M |
And let awhile the willow's crown | M |
With luckier omens bind your hair | F |
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VIII | A |
O just escap'd the faithless main | M |
Though driven unwilling on the land | V |
To guide your favor'd steps again | M |
Behold your better genius stand | V |
Where truth revolves her page divine | M |
Where virtue leads to honor's shrine | M |
Behold he lifts his awful hand | V |
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IX | U |
Fix but on these your ruling aim | S |
And time the sire of manly care | F |
Will fancy's dazzling colors tame | S |
A soberer dress will beauty wear | F |
Then shall esteem by knowledge led | W |
Inthrone within your heart and head | W |
Some happier love some truer fair | F |
Mark Akenside
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