Ode V: Against Suspicion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDC AEEFDDF AGGDFFD HHHDIID HJJKFFK HLLHJJH HDDMNLM HOODDDD JPPJJJJ JQQDJJD

IA
Oh fly 'tis dire Suspicion's mienB
And meditating plagues unseenB
The sorceress hither bendsC
Behold her torch in gall imbruedD
Behold her garment drops with bloodD
Of lovers and of friendsC
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IIA
Fly far Already in your eyesE
I see a pale suffusion riseE
And soon through every veinF
Soon will her secret venom spreadD
And all your heart and all your headD
Imbibe the potent stainF
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IIIA
Then many a demon will she raiseG
To vex your sleep to haunt your waysG
While gleams of lost delightD
Raise the dark tempest of the brainF
As lightning shines across the mainF
Through whirlwinds and through nightD
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IVH
No more can faith or candor moveH
But each ingenuous deed of loveH
Which reason would applaudD
Now smiling o'er her dark distressI
Fancy malignant strives to dressI
Like injury and fraudD
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VH
Farewell to virtue's peaceful timesJ
Soon will you stoop to act the crimesJ
Which thus you stoop to fearK
Guilt follows guilt and where the trainF
Begins with wrongs of such a stainF
What horrors form the rearK
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VIH
'Tis thus to work her baleful powerL
Suspicion waits the sullen hourL
Of fretfulness and strifeH
When care the infirmer bosom wringsJ
Or Eurus waves his murky wingsJ
To damp the seats of lifeH
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VIIH
But come forsake the scene unbless'dD
Which first beheld your faithful breastD
To groundless fears a preyM
Come where with my prevailing lyreN
The skies the streams the groves conspireL
To charm your doubts awayM
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VIIIH
Thron'd in the sun's descending carO
What power unseen diffuseth farO
This tenderness of mindD
What genius smiles on yonder floodD
What god in whispers from the woodD
Bids every thought be kindD
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IXJ
O thou whate'er thy awful nameP
Whose wisdom our untoward frameP
With social love restrainsJ
Thou who by fair affection's tiesJ
Giv'st us to double all our joysJ
And half disarm our painsJ
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XJ
Let universal candor stillQ
Clear as yon heaven reflecting rillQ
Preserve my open mindD
Nor this nor that man's crooked waysJ
One sordid doubt within me raiseJ
To injure human kindD

Mark Akenside



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