Pleasures Of Imagination, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFEGHIEJKLEMAENOP EEQRSTUAVE WXBWAUYEZA2IB2C2ED2E 2F2MG2H2AI2EJ2BOOK I | A |
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With what attractive charms this goodly frame | B |
Of Nature touches the consenting hearts | C |
Of mortal men and what the pleasing stores | D |
Which beauteous imitation thence derives | E |
To deck the poet's or the painter's toil | F |
My verse unfolds Attend ye gentle pow'rs | E |
Of musical delight and while I sing | G |
Your gifts your honours dance around my strain | H |
Thou smiling queen of every tuneful breast | I |
Indulgent Fancy from the fruitful banks | E |
Of Avon whence thy rosy fingers cull | J |
Fresh flowers and dews to sprinkle on the turf | K |
Where Shakspeare lies be present and with thee | L |
Let Fiction come upon her vagrant wings | E |
Wafting ten thousand colours through the air | M |
Which by the glances of her magic eye | A |
She blends and shifts at will through countless forms | E |
Her wild creation Goddess of the lyre | N |
Which rules the accents of the moving sphere | O |
Wilt thou eternal Harmony descend | P |
And join this festive train for with thee comes | E |
The guide the guardian of their lovely sports | E |
Majestic Truth and where Truth deigns to come | Q |
Her sister Liberty will not be far | R |
Be present all ye genii who conduct | S |
The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard | T |
New to your springs and shades who touch his ear | U |
With finer sounds who heighten to his eye | A |
The bloom of Nature and before him turn | V |
The gayest happiest attitude of things | E |
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Or shall I mention where celestial Truth | W |
Her awful light discloses to bestow | X |
A more majestic pomp on Beauty's frame | B |
For man loves knowledge and the beams of Truth | W |
More welcome touch his understanding's eye | A |
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear | U |
Than all of taste his tongue Nor ever yet | Y |
The melting rainbow's vernal tinctur'd hues | E |
To me have shone so pleasing as when first | Z |
The hand of Science pointed out the path | A2 |
In which the sun beams gleaming from the west | I |
Fall on the watery cloud whose darksome veil | B2 |
Involves the orient and that trickling shower | C2 |
Piercing through every crystalline convex | E |
Of clustering dew drops to their flight oppos'd | D2 |
Recoil at length where concave all behind | E2 |
The internal surface on each glassy orb | F2 |
Repeals their forward passage into air | M |
That thence direct they seek the radiant goal | G2 |
From which their course began and as they strike | H2 |
In different lines the gazer's obvious eye | A |
Assume a different lustre through the brede | I2 |
Of colours changing from the splendid rose | E |
To the pale violet's dejected hue | J2 |
Mark Akenside
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