The Pleasures Of Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFEGHIEJKLEMAENOP EEQRSTUAVE WXBWAUYEZA2IB2C2ED2E 2F2MG2H2AI2EJ2

BOOK IA
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With what attractive charms this goodly frameB
Of Nature touches the consenting heartsC
Of mortal men and what the pleasing storesD
Which beauteous imitation thence derivesE
To deck the poet's or the painter's toilF
My verse unfolds Attend ye gentle pow'rsE
Of musical delight and while I singG
Your gifts your honours dance around my strainH
Thou smiling queen of every tuneful breastI
Indulgent Fancy from the fruitful banksE
Of Avon whence thy rosy fingers cullJ
Fresh flowers and dews to sprinkle on the turfK
Where Shakspeare lies be present and with theeL
Let Fiction come upon her vagrant wingsE
Wafting ten thousand colours through the airM
Which by the glances of her magic eyeA
She blends and shifts at will through countless formsE
Her wild creation Goddess of the lyreN
Which rules the accents of the moving sphereO
Wilt thou eternal Harmony descendP
And join this festive train for with thee comesE
The guide the guardian of their lovely sportsE
Majestic Truth and where Truth deigns to comeQ
Her sister Liberty will not be farR
Be present all ye genii who conductS
The wandering footsteps of the youthful bardT
New to your springs and shades who touch his earU
With finer sounds who heighten to his eyeA
The bloom of Nature and before him turnV
The gayest happiest attitude of thingsE
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Or shall I mention where celestial TruthW
Her awful light discloses to bestowX
A more majestic pomp on Beauty's frameB
For man loves knowledge and the beams of TruthW
More welcome touch his understanding's eyeA
Than all the blandishments of sound his earU
Than all of taste his tongue Nor ever yetY
The melting rainbow's vernal tinctur'd huesE
To me have shone so pleasing as when firstZ
The hand of Science pointed out the pathA2
In which the sun beams gleaming from the westI
Fall on the watery cloud whose darksome veilB2
Involves the orient and that trickling showerC2
Piercing through every crystalline convexE
Of clustering dew drops to their flight oppos'dD2
Recoil at length where concave all behindE2
The internal surface on each glassy orbF2
Repeals their forward passage into airM
That thence direct they seek the radiant goalG2
From which their course began and as they strikeH2
In different lines the gazer's obvious eyeA
Assume a different lustre through the bredeI2
Of colours changing from the splendid roseE
To the pale violet's dejected hueJ2

Mark Akenside



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