Ode Xi: On Love, To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme

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I	A
No foolish youth To virtuous fame	B
If now thy early hopes be vow'd	C
If true ambition's nobler flame	B
Command thy footsteps from the croud	C
Lean not to love's inchanting snare	D
His songs his words his looks beware	D
Nor join his votaries the young and fair	D
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II	A
By thought by dangers and by toils	E
The wreath of just renown is worn	F
Nor will ambition's awful spoils	E
The flowery pomp of ease adorn	F
But love unbends the force of thought	C
By love unmanly fears are taught	C
And love's reward with gaudy sloth is bought	C
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III	A
Yet thou hast read in tuneful lays	G
And heard from many a zealous breast	C
The pleasing tale of beauty's praise	G
In wisdom's lofty language dress'd	C
Of beauty powerful to impart	C
Each finer sense each comelier art	C
And sooth and polish man's ungentle heart	C
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IV	H
If then from love's deceit secure	I
Thus far alone thy wishes tend	C
Go see the white wing'd evening hour	J
On Delia's vernal walk descend	C
Go while the golden light serene	K
The grove the lawn the soften'd scene	K
Becomes the presence of the rural queen	K
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V	H
Attend while that harmonious tongue	L
Each bosom each desire commands	M
Apollo's lute by Hermes strung	L
And touch'd by chaste Minerva's hands	M
Attend I feel a force divine	N
O Delia win my thoughts to thine	N
That half the color of thy life is mine	N
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VI	H
Yet conscious of the dangerous charm	O
Soon would i turn my steps away	P
Nor oft provoke the lovely harm	O
Nor lull my reason's watchful sway	P
But thou my friend i hear thy sighs	Q
Alass i read thy downcast eyes	Q
And thy tongue falters and thy color flies	Q
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VII	H
So soon again to meet the fair	D
So pensive all this absent hour	J
O yet unlucky youth beware	D
While yet to think is in thy power	J
In vain with friendship's flattering name	B
Thy passion veils its inward shame	B
Friendship the treacherous fuel of thy flame	B
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VIII	H
Once I remember new to love	H
And dreading his tyrannic chain	R
I sought a gentle maid to prove	H
What peaceful joys in friendship reign	R
Whence we forsooth might safely stand	C
And pitying view the lovesick band	C
And mock the winged boy's malicious hand	C
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IX	Q
Thus frequent pass'd the cloudless day	P
To smiles and sweet discourse resign'd	C
While i exulted to survey	P
One generous woman's real mind	C
Till friendship soon my languid breast	C
Each night with unknown cares possess'd	C
Dash'd my coy slumbers or my dreams distress'd	C
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X	Q
Fool that i was And now even now	S
While thus i preach the Stoic strain	R
Unless i shun Olympia's view	H
An hour unsays it all again	T
O friend when love directs her eyes	Q
To pierce where every passion lies	Q
Where is the firm the cautious or the wise	Q

Mark Akenside

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