Ode To Della Crusca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNOBNPQ QKONRNSOMNKTKUNBNQRV WXYZOOQA2OKB2KQOOC2K BXOXD2WE2QMF2KXBNNBN G2OOKENLIGHTEN'D Patron of the sacred Lyre | A |
Whose ever varying ever witching song | B |
Revibrates on the heart | C |
With magic thrilling touch | D |
Till ev'ry nerve with quiv'ring throb divine | E |
In madd'ning tumults owns thy wondrous pow'r | F |
For well thy dulcet notes | G |
Can wind the mazy song | B |
In labyrinth of wild fantastic form | H |
Or with empassion'd pathos woo the soul | I |
With sounds more sweetly mild | J |
Than SAPPHO's plaint forlorn | K |
When bending o'er the wave she sung her woes | L |
While pitying ECHO hover'd o'er the deep | M |
Till in their coral caves | N |
The tuneful NEREIDES wept | O |
AH whither art thou flown where pours thy song | B |
The model and the pride of British bards | N |
Sweet STAR of FANCY's orb | P |
O tell me tell me where | Q |
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Say dost thou waste it on the viewless air | Q |
That bears it to the confines of high Heav'n | K |
Or does it court the meed | O |
Of proud pre eminence | N |
Or steals it o'er the glitt'ring Sapphire wave | R |
Calming the tempest with its silver sounds | N |
Or does it charm to love | S |
The fond believing maid | O |
Or does it hover o'er the ALPINE steep | M |
Or softly breathing under myrtle shades | N |
With SYMPATHY divine | K |
Solace the child of woe | T |
Where'er thou art Oh let thy gentle strain | K |
Again with magic pow'r delight mine ear | U |
Untutor'd in the spells | N |
And mysteries of song | B |
Then on the margin of the deep I'll muse | N |
And bless the rocking bark ordain'd to bear | Q |
My sad heart o'er the wave | R |
From this ungrateful isle | V |
When the wan queen of night with languid eye | W |
Peeps o'er the mountain's head or thro' the vale | X |
Illumes the glassy brook | Y |
Or dew besprinkled heath | Z |
Or with her crystal lamp directs the feet | O |
Of the benighted TRAV'LLER cold and sad | O |
Thro' the long forest drear | Q |
And pathless labyrinth | A2 |
To the poor PEASANT's hospitable cot | O |
For ever open to the wretch forlorn | K |
O then I'll think on THEE | B2 |
And iterate thy strain | K |
And chaunt thy matchless numbers o'er and o'er | Q |
And I will court the sullen ear of night | O |
To bear the rapt'rous sound | O |
On her dark shad'wy wing | C2 |
To where encircled by the sacred NINE | K |
Thy LYRE awakes the never dying song | B |
Now BARD admir'd farwel | X |
The white sail flutters loud | O |
The gaudy streamers lengthen in the gale | X |
Far from my native shore I bend my way | D2 |
Yet as my aching eye | W |
Shall view the less'ning cliff | E2 |
'Till its stupendous head shall scarce appear | Q |
Above the surface of the swelling deep | M |
I'll snatch a ray of hope | F2 |
For HOPE's the lamp divine | K |
That lights and vivifies the fainting soul | X |
With extacies beyond the pow'rs of song | B |
That ere I reach those banks | N |
Where the loud TIBER flows | N |
Or milder ARNO slowly steals along | B |
To the soft music of the summer breeze | N |
The wafting wing of TIME | G2 |
May bear this last ADIEU | O |
This wild untutor'd picture of the heart | O |
To HIM whose magic verse INSPIR'D THE STRAIN | K |
Mary Darby Robinson
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