To The Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDEEFF GGHHHIIJJBBKKK| Queen of my songs harmonious maid | A |
| Ah why hast thou withdrawn thy aid | A |
| Ah why forsaken thus my breast | B |
| With inauspicious damps oppress'd | B |
| Where is the dread prophetic heat | C |
| With which my bosom wont to beat | C |
| Where all the bright mysterious dreams | D |
| Of haunted groves and tuneful streams | D |
| That woo'd my genius to divinest themes | D |
| Say goddess can the festal board | E |
| Or young Olympia's form ador'd | E |
| Say can the pomp of promis'd fame | F |
| Relume thy faint thy dying flame | F |
| - | |
| Or have melodious airs the power | G |
| To give one free poetic hour | G |
| Or from amid the Elysian train | H |
| The soul of Milton shall i gain | H |
| To win thee back with some celestial strain | H |
| O powerful strain o sacred soul | I |
| His numbers every sense controul | I |
| And now again my bosom burns | J |
| The Muse the Muse herself returns | J |
| Such on the banks of Tyne confess'd | B |
| I hail'd the fair immortal guest | B |
| When first she seal'd me for her own | K |
| Made all her blissful treasures known | K |
| And bade me swear to follow Her alone | K |
Mark Akenside
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< On A Sermon Against Glory Poem
To Thomas Edwards, Esquire - On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope's Work Poem>>
Write your comment about To The Muse poem by Mark Akenside
Best Poems of Mark Akenside