Ode To Eloquence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGGHHF EEIIJJKLLKMMHH NNOPPO QRNSNTNNEEDDHU VWEXEXNNBYYBZZ| HAIL GODDESS of persuasive art | A |
| The magic of whose tuneful tongue | B |
| Lulls to soft harmony the wand'ring heart | A |
| With fascinating song | C |
| O let me hear thy heav'n taught strain | D |
| As thro' my quiv'ring pulses steal | E |
| The mingling throbs of joy and pain | D |
| Which only sensate minds can feel | E |
| Ah let me taste the bliss supreme | F |
| Which thy warm touch unerring flings | G |
| O'er the rapt sense's finest strings | G |
| When GENIUS darting frown the sky | H |
| Glances across my wond'ring eye | H |
| Her animating beam | F |
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| SWEET ELOQUENCE thy mild controul | E |
| Awakes to REASON's dawn the IDIOT soul | E |
| When mists absorb the MENTAL sight | I |
| 'Tis thine to dart CREATIVE LIGHT | I |
| 'Tis thine to chase the filmy clouds away | J |
| And o'er the mind's deep bloom spread a refulgent ray | J |
| Nor is thy wond'rous art confin'd | K |
| Within the bounds of MENTAL space | L |
| For thou canst boast exterior grace | L |
| Bright emblem of the fertile mind | K |
| Yes I have seen thee with persuasion meek | M |
| Bathe in the lucid tear on Beauty's cheek | M |
| Have mark'd thee in the downcast eye | H |
| When suff'ring Virtue claim'd the pitying sigh | H |
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| Oft by thy thrilling voice subdued | N |
| The meagre fiend INGRATITUDE | N |
| Her treach'rous fang conceals | O |
| Pale ENVY hides her forked sting | P |
| And CALUMNY beneath the wing | P |
| Of dark oblivion steals | O |
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| Before thy pure and lambent fire | Q |
| Shall frozen Apathy expire | R |
| Thy influence warm and unconfin'd | N |
| Shall rapt'rous transports give | S |
| And in the base and torpid mind | N |
| Shall bid the fine Affections live | T |
| When JEALOUSY's malignant dart | N |
| Strikes at the fondly throbbing heart | N |
| When fancied woes on every side assail | E |
| Thy honey'd accents shall prevail | E |
| When burning Passion withers up the brain | D |
| And the fix'd lids the glowing drops sustain | D |
| Touch'd by thy voice the melting eye | H |
| Shall pour the balm of yielding SYMPATHY | U |
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| 'Tis thine with lenient Song to move | V |
| The dumb despair of hopeless LOVE | W |
| Or when the animated soul | E |
| On Fancy's wing shall soar | X |
| And scorning Reason's soft controul | E |
| Untrodden paths explore | X |
| 'Till by distracting conflicts tost | N |
| The intellectual source is lost | N |
| E'en then the witching music of thy tongue | B |
| Stealing thro' Mis'ry's DARKEST GLOOM | Y |
| Weaves the fine threads of FANCY's loom | Y |
| 'Till every slacken'd nerve new strung | B |
| Bids renovated NATURE shine | Z |
| Amidst the fost'ring beams of ELOQUENCE DIVINE | Z |
Mary Darby Robinson
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