Ode V: Against Suspicion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDC AEEFDDF AGGDFFD HHHDIID HJJKFFK HLLHJJH HDDMNLM HOODDDD JPPJJJJ JQQDJJDI | A |
Oh fly 'tis dire Suspicion's mien | B |
And meditating plagues unseen | B |
The sorceress hither bends | C |
Behold her torch in gall imbrued | D |
Behold her garment drops with blood | D |
Of lovers and of friends | C |
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II | A |
Fly far Already in your eyes | E |
I see a pale suffusion rise | E |
And soon through every vein | F |
Soon will her secret venom spread | D |
And all your heart and all your head | D |
Imbibe the potent stain | F |
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III | A |
Then many a demon will she raise | G |
To vex your sleep to haunt your ways | G |
While gleams of lost delight | D |
Raise the dark tempest of the brain | F |
As lightning shines across the main | F |
Through whirlwinds and through night | D |
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IV | H |
No more can faith or candor move | H |
But each ingenuous deed of love | H |
Which reason would applaud | D |
Now smiling o'er her dark distress | I |
Fancy malignant strives to dress | I |
Like injury and fraud | D |
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V | H |
Farewell to virtue's peaceful times | J |
Soon will you stoop to act the crimes | J |
Which thus you stoop to fear | K |
Guilt follows guilt and where the train | F |
Begins with wrongs of such a stain | F |
What horrors form the rear | K |
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VI | H |
'Tis thus to work her baleful power | L |
Suspicion waits the sullen hour | L |
Of fretfulness and strife | H |
When care the infirmer bosom wrings | J |
Or Eurus waves his murky wings | J |
To damp the seats of life | H |
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VII | H |
But come forsake the scene unbless'd | D |
Which first beheld your faithful breast | D |
To groundless fears a prey | M |
Come where with my prevailing lyre | N |
The skies the streams the groves conspire | L |
To charm your doubts away | M |
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VIII | H |
Thron'd in the sun's descending car | O |
What power unseen diffuseth far | O |
This tenderness of mind | D |
What genius smiles on yonder flood | D |
What god in whispers from the wood | D |
Bids every thought be kind | D |
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IX | J |
O thou whate'er thy awful name | P |
Whose wisdom our untoward frame | P |
With social love restrains | J |
Thou who by fair affection's ties | J |
Giv'st us to double all our joys | J |
And half disarm our pains | J |
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X | J |
Let universal candor still | Q |
Clear as yon heaven reflecting rill | Q |
Preserve my open mind | D |
Nor this nor that man's crooked ways | J |
One sordid doubt within me raise | J |
To injure human kind | D |
Mark Akenside
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