Lines On Hearing It Declared That No Women Were So Handsome As The English Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHFF FFIFJJ JJKKJJ LLMMJJNNJJJJJJJJ MMJJFFNN| BEAUTY the attribute of Heaven | A |
| In various forms to mortals given | A |
| With magic skill enslaves mankind | B |
| As sportive fancy sways the mind | B |
| Search the wide world go where you will | C |
| VARIETY pursues you still | C |
| Capricious Nature knows no bound | D |
| Her unexhausted gifts are found | D |
| In ev'ry clime in ev'ry face | E |
| Each has its own peculiar grace | E |
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| To GALLIA's frolic scenes repair | F |
| There reigns the tyny DEBONAIRE | F |
| The mincing step the slender waist | G |
| The lip with bright vermilion grac'd | G |
| The short pert nose the pearly teeth | H |
| With the small dimpled chin beneath | H |
| The social converse gay and free | F |
| The smart BON MOT and REPARTEE | F |
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| ITALIA boasts the melting fair | F |
| The pointed step the haughty air | F |
| Th' empassion'd tone the languid eye | I |
| The song of thrilling harmony | F |
| Insidious LOVE conceal'd in smiles | J |
| That charms and as it charms beguiles | J |
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| View GRECIAN MAIDS whose finish'd forms | J |
| The wond'ring sculptor's fancy warms | J |
| There let thy ravish'd eye behold | K |
| The softest gems of Nature's mould | K |
| Each charm that REYNOLDS learnt to trace | J |
| From SHERIDAN's bewitching face | J |
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| Imperious TURKEY's pride is seen | L |
| In Beauty's rich luxuriant mien | L |
| The dark and sparkling orbs that glow | M |
| Beneath a polish'd front of snow | M |
| The auburn curl that zephyr blows | J |
| About the cheek of brightest rose | J |
| The shorten'd zone the swelling breast | N |
| With costly gems profusely drest | N |
| Reclin'd in softly waving bow'rs | J |
| On painted beds of fragrant flow'rs | J |
| Where od'rous canopies dispense | J |
| ARABIA's spices to the sense | J |
| Where listless indolence and ease | J |
| Proclaim the sov'reign wish to please | J |
| 'Tis thus capricious FANCY shows | J |
| How far her frolic empire goes | J |
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| On ASIA's sands on ALPINE snow | M |
| We trace her steps where'er we go | M |
| The BRITISH Maid with timid grace | J |
| The tawny INDIAN 's varnish'd face | J |
| The jetty AFRICAN the fair | F |
| Nurs'd by EUROPA's softer air | F |
| With various charms delight the mind | N |
| For FANCY governs ALL MANKIND | N |
Mary Darby Robinson
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