Ode Viii: If Rightly Tuneful Bards Decide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDD ADEDEFF AGHGHAA IJKJKLL IMNMNOO| I | A |
| If rightly tuneful bards decide | B |
| If it be fix'd in love's decrees | C |
| That beauty ought not to be tried | B |
| But by its native power to please | C |
| Then tell me youths and lovers tell | D |
| What fair can Amoret excell | D |
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| II | A |
| Behold that bright unsullied smile | D |
| And wisdom speaking in her mien | E |
| Yet she so artless all the while | D |
| So little studious to be seen | E |
| We nought but instant gladness know | F |
| Nor think to whom the gift we owe | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| But neither music nor the powers | G |
| Of youth and mirth and frolick cheer | H |
| Add half that sunshine to the hours | G |
| Or make life's prospect half so clear | H |
| As memory brings it to the eye | A |
| From scenes where Amoret was by | A |
| - | |
| IV | I |
| Yet not a satirist could there | J |
| Or fault or indiscretion find | K |
| Nor any prouder sage declare | J |
| One virtue pictur'd in his mind | K |
| Whose form with lovelier colours glows | L |
| Than Amoret's demeanor shows | L |
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| V | I |
| This sure is beauty's happiest part | M |
| This gives the most unbounded sway | N |
| This shall inchant the subject heart | M |
| When rose and lily fade away | N |
| And she be still in spite of time | O |
| Sweet Amoret in all her prime | O |
Mark Akenside
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