Ode X: To The Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEE AFFGGHHIII AJJKKCCLLL| I | A |
| Queen of my songs harmonious maid | B |
| Ah why hast thou withdrawn thy aid | B |
| Ah why forsaken thus my breast | C |
| With inauspicious damps oppress'd | C |
| Where is the dread prophetic heat | D |
| With which my bosom wont to beat | D |
| Where all the bright mysterious dreams | E |
| Of haunted groves and tuneful streams | E |
| That woo'd my genius to divinest themes | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Say goddess can the festal board | F |
| Or young Olympia's form ador'd | F |
| Say can the pomp of promis'd fame | G |
| Relume thy faint thy dying flame | G |
| Or have melodious airs the power | H |
| To give one free poetic hour | H |
| Or from amid the Elysian train | I |
| The soul of Milton shall i gain | I |
| To win thee back with some celestial strain | I |
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| III | A |
| O powerful strain o sacred soul | J |
| His numbers every sense controul | J |
| And now again my bosom burns | K |
| The Muse the Muse herself returns | K |
| Such on the banks of Tyne confess'd | C |
| I hail'd the fair immortal guest | C |
| When first she seal'd me for her own | L |
| Made all her blissful treasures known | L |
| And bade me swear to follow Her alone | L |
Mark Akenside
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