Ode To Envy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEDCFGGBHE IIJKKLMJ NNOOPPQRQRAASS TPPTUVVUAA HWHAWRAR XYXYAAZZA2AACB2B2C2D 2D2C2 NINIE2E2AAB2B2| Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides | A |
| In thickest mists of vapours fell | B |
| Where wily Serpents hissing glare | C |
| And the dark Demon of Revenge resides | A |
| At midnight's murky hour | D |
| Thy origin began | E |
| Rapacious MALICE was thy sire | D |
| Thy Dam the sullen witch Despair | C |
| Thy Nurse insatiate Ire | F |
| The FATES conspir'd their ills to twine | G |
| About thy heart's infected shrine | G |
| They gave thee each disastrous spell | B |
| Each desolating pow'r | H |
| To blast the fairest hopes of man | E |
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| Soon as thy fatal birth was known | I |
| From her unhallow'd throne | I |
| With ghastly smile pale Hecate sprung | J |
| Thy hideous form the Sorc'ress press'd | K |
| With kindred fondness to her breast | K |
| Her haggard eye | L |
| Short forth a ray of transient joy | M |
| Whilst thro' th' infernal shades exulting clamours rung | J |
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| Above thy fellow fiends thy tyrant hand | N |
| Grasp'd with resistless force supreme command | N |
| The dread terrific crowd | O |
| Before thy iron sceptre bow'd | O |
| Now seated in thy ebon cave | P |
| Around thy throne relentless furies rave | P |
| A wreath of ever wounding thorn | Q |
| Thy scowling brows encompass round | R |
| Thy heart by knawing Vultures torn | Q |
| Thy meagre limbs with deathless scorpions bound | R |
| Thy black associates torpid IGNORANCE | A |
| And pining JEALOUSY with eye askance | A |
| With savage rapture execute thy will | S |
| And strew the paths of life with every torturing ill | S |
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| Nor can the sainted dead escape thy rage | T |
| Thy vengeance haunts the silent grave | P |
| Thy taunts insult the ashes of the brave | P |
| While proud AMBITION weeps thy rancour to assuage | T |
| The laurels round the POET's bust | U |
| Twin'd by the liberal hand of Taste | V |
| By thy malignant grasp defac'd | V |
| Fade to their native dust | U |
| Thy ever watchful eye no labour tires | A |
| Beneath thy venom'd touch the angel TRUTH expires | A |
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| When in thy petrifying car | H |
| Thy scaly dragons waft thy form | W |
| Then swifter deadlier far | H |
| Than the keen lightning's lance | A |
| That wings its way across the yelling storm | W |
| Thy barbed shafts fly whizzing round | R |
| While every with'ring glance | A |
| Inflicts a cureless wound | R |
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| Thy giant arm with pond'rous blow | X |
| Hurls genius from her glorious height | Y |
| Bends the fair front of Virtue low | X |
| And meanly pilfers every pure delight | Y |
| Thy hollow voice the sense appalls | A |
| Thy vigilance the mind enthralls | A |
| Rest hast thou none by night by day | Z |
| Thy jealous ardour seeks for prey | Z |
| Nought can restrain thy swift career | A2 |
| Thy smile derides the suff'rer's wrongs | A |
| Thy tongue the sland'rers tale prolongs | A |
| Thy thirst imbibes the victim's tear | C |
| Thy breast recoils from friendship's flame | B2 |
| Sick'ning thou hear'st the trump of Fame | B2 |
| Worth gives to thee the direst pang | C2 |
| The Lover's rapture wounds thy heart | D2 |
| The proudest efforts of prolific art | D2 |
| Shrink from thy poisonous fang | C2 |
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| In vain the Sculptor's lab'ring hand | N |
| Calls fine proportion from the Parian stone | I |
| In vain the Minstrel's chords command | N |
| The soft vibrations of seraphic tone | I |
| For swift thy violating arm | E2 |
| Tears from perfection ev'ry charm | E2 |
| Nor rosy YOUTH nor BEAUTY's smiles | A |
| Thy unrelenting rage beguiles | A |
| Thy breath contaminates the fairest name | B2 |
| And binds the guiltless brow with ever blist'ring shame | B2 |
Mary Darby Robinson
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