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