To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGFHHIJJIDDKLLKMN JJJJOOPQQPRRSTUS LLVWXV| Say Townshend what can London boast | A |
| To pay thee for the pleasures lost | B |
| The health to day resign'd | C |
| When spring from this her favorite seat | D |
| Bade winter hasten his retreat | D |
| And met the western wind | C |
| - | |
| Oh knew'st thou how the balmy air | E |
| The sun the azure heavens prepare | E |
| To heal thy languid frame | F |
| No more would noisy courts ingage | G |
| In vain would lying faction's rage | G |
| Thy sacred leisure claim | F |
| Oft I look'd forth and oft admir'd | H |
| Till with the studious volume tir'd | H |
| I sought the open day | I |
| And sure I cry'd the rural gods | J |
| Expect me in their green abodes | J |
| And chide my tardy lay | I |
| But ah in vain my restless feet | D |
| Trac'd every silent shady seat | D |
| Which knew their forms of old | K |
| Nor Naiad by her fountain laid | L |
| Nor Wood nymph tripping through her glade | L |
| Did now their rites unfold | K |
| Whether to nurse some infant oak | M |
| They turn the slowly tinkling brook | N |
| And catch the pearly showers | J |
| Or brush the mildew from the woods | J |
| Or paint with noontide beams the buds | J |
| Or breathe on opening flowers | J |
| Such rites which they with spring renew | O |
| The eyes of care can never view | O |
| And care hath long been mine | P |
| And hence offended with their guest | Q |
| Since grief of love my soul oppress'd | Q |
| They hide their toils divine | P |
| But soon shall thy inlivening tongue | R |
| This heart by dear affliction wrung | R |
| With noble hope inspire | S |
| Then will the sylvan powers again | T |
| Receive me in their genial train | U |
| And listen to my lyre | S |
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| Beneath yon Dryad's lonely shade | L |
| A rustic altar shall be paid | L |
| Of turf with laurel fram'd | V |
| And thou the inscription wilt approve | W |
| This for the peace which lost by love | X |
| By friendship was reclaim'd | V |
Mark Akenside
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