To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love; Ode Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCB DEDEFGEHIHJKKLEMEMHH MNOPOQQRSTSTUUTJELEM ME MVMVMMVSESEWWE| Indeed my Phaedra if to find | A |
| That wealth can female wishes gain | B |
| Had e'er disturb'd your thoughtful mind | A |
| Or cost one serious moment's pain | B |
| I should have said that all the rules | C |
| You learn'd of moralists and schools | C |
| Were very useless very vain | B |
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| Yet I perhaps mistake the case | D |
| Say though with this heroic air | E |
| Like one that holds a nobler chace | D |
| You try the tender loss to bear | E |
| Does not your heart renounce your tongue | F |
| Seems not my censure strangely wrong | G |
| To count it such a slight affair | E |
| When Hesper gilds the shaded sky | H |
| Oft as you seek the well known grove | I |
| Methinks I see you cast your eye | H |
| Back to the morning scenes of love | J |
| Each pleasing word you heard her say | K |
| Her gentle look her graceful way | K |
| Again your struggling fancy move | L |
| Then tell me is your soul intire | E |
| Does wisdom calmly hold her throne | M |
| Then can you question each desire | E |
| Bid this remain and that begone | M |
| No tear half starting from your eye | H |
| No kindling blush you know not why | H |
| No stealing sigh nor stifled groan | M |
| Away with this unmanly mood | N |
| See where the hoary churl appears | O |
| Whose hand hath seiz'd the favorite good | P |
| Which you reserv'd for happier years | O |
| While side by side the blushing maid | Q |
| Shrinks from his visage half afraid | Q |
| Spite of the sickly joy she wears | R |
| Ye guardian powers of love and fame | S |
| This chaste harmonious pair behold | T |
| And thus reward the generous flame | S |
| Of all who barter vows for gold | T |
| O bloom of youth o tender charms | U |
| Well buried in a dotard's arms | U |
| O equal price of beauty sold | T |
| Cease then to gaze with looks of love | J |
| Bid her adieu the venal fair | E |
| Unworthy she your bliss to prove | L |
| Then wherefore should she prove your care | E |
| No lay your myrtle garland down | M |
| And let awhile the willow's crown | M |
| With luckier omens bind your hair | E |
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| O just escap'd the faithless main | M |
| Though driven unwilling on the land | V |
| To guide your favor'd steps again | M |
| Behold your better genius stand | V |
| Where truth revolves her page divine | M |
| Where virtue leads to honor's shrine | M |
| Behold he lifts his awful hand | V |
| Fix but on these your ruling aim | S |
| And time the sire of manly care | E |
| Will fancy's dazzling colors tame | S |
| A soberer dress will beauty wear | E |
| Then shall esteem by knowledge led | W |
| Inthrone within your heart and head | W |
| Some happier love some truer fair | E |
Mark Akenside
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