Ode To Health Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADD DDEEFFGGHHII DDJKKJLLBB MMFNNL OOPPGQGQCCDIIRSSRD TUDDHNHN VVQQKWXOOW AANNMM AAPPQQYYUUDD AAQQAA| Come bright eyed maid | A |
| Pure offspring of the tranquil mind | B |
| Haste my fev'rish temples bind | B |
| With olive wreaths of em'rald hue | C |
| Steep'd in morn's ethereal dew | C |
| Where in mild HELVETIA's shade | A |
| Blushing summer round her flings | D |
| Warm gales and sunny show'rs that hang upon her wings | D |
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| I'll seek thee in ITALIA's bow'rs | D |
| Where supine on beds of flow'rs | D |
| Melody's soul touching throng | E |
| Strike the soft lute or trill the melting song | E |
| Where blithe FANCY queen of pleasure | F |
| Pours each rich luxuriant treasure | F |
| For thee I'll climb the breezy hill | G |
| While the balmy dews distill | G |
| Odours from the budding thorn | H |
| Drop'd from the lust'rous lids of morn | H |
| Who starting from her shad'wy bed | I |
| Binds her gold fillet round the mountain's head | I |
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| There I'll press from herbs and flow'rs | D |
| Juices bless'd with opiate pow'rs | D |
| Whose magic potency can heal | J |
| The throb of agonizing pain | K |
| And thro' the purple swelling vein | K |
| With subtle influence steal | J |
| Heav'n opes for thee its aromatic store | L |
| To bathe each languid gasping pore | L |
| But where O where shall cherish'd sorrow find | B |
| The lenient balm to soothe the feeling mind | B |
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| O mem'ry busy barb'rous foe | M |
| At thy fell touch I wake to woe | M |
| Alas the flatt'ring dream is o'er | F |
| From thee the bright illusions fly | N |
| Thou bidst the glitt'ring phantoms die | N |
| And hope and youth and fancy charm no more | L |
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| No more for me the tip toe SPRING | O |
| Drops flowrets from her infant wing | O |
| For me in vain the wild thymes bloom | P |
| Thro' the forest flings perfume | P |
| In vain I climb th'embroider'd hill | G |
| To breathe the clear autumnal air | Q |
| In vain I quaff the lucid rill | G |
| Since jocund HEALTH delights not there | Q |
| To greet my heart no more I view | C |
| With sparkling eye the silv'ry dew | C |
| Sprinkling May's tears upon the folded rose | D |
| As low it droops its young and blushing head | I |
| Press'd by grey twilight to its mossy bed | I |
| No more I lave amidst the tide | R |
| Or bound along the tufted grove | S |
| Or o'er enamel'd meadows rove | S |
| Where on Zephyr's pinions glide | R |
| Salubrious airs that waft the nymph repose | D |
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| Lightly o'er the yellow heath | T |
| Steals thy soft and fragrant breath | U |
| Breath inhal'd from musky flow'rs | D |
| Newly bath'd in perfum'd show'rs | D |
| See the rosy finger'd morn | H |
| Opes her bright refulgent eye | N |
| Hills and valleys to adorn | H |
| While from her burning glance the scatter'd vapours fly | N |
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| Soon ah soon the painted scene | V |
| The hill's blue top the valley's green | V |
| Midst clouds of snow and whirlwinds drear | Q |
| Shall cold and comfortless appear | Q |
| The howling blast shall strip the plain | K |
| And bid my pensive bosom learn | W |
| Tho' NATURE's face shall smile again | X |
| And on the glowing breast of Spring | O |
| Creation all her gems shall fling | O |
| YOUTH's April morn shall ne'er return | W |
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| Then come Oh quickly come Hygeian Maid | A |
| Each throbbing pulse each quiv'ring nerve pervade | A |
| Flash thy bright fires across my languid eye | N |
| Tint my pale visage with thy roseate die | N |
| Bid my heart's current own a temp'rate glow | M |
| And from its crimson source in tepid channels flow | M |
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| O HEALTH celestial Nymph without thy aid | A |
| Creation sickens in oblivions shade | A |
| Along the drear and solitary gloom | P |
| We steal on thorny footsteps to the tomb | P |
| Youth age wealth poverty alike agree | Q |
| To live is anguish when depriv'd of Thee | Q |
| To THEE indulgent Heav'n benignly gave | Y |
| The touch to heal the extacy to save | Y |
| The balmy incense of thy fost'ring breath | U |
| Wafts the wan victim from the fangs of Death | U |
| Robs the grim Tyrant of his trembling prize | D |
| Cheers the faint soul and lifts it to the skies | D |
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| Let not the gentle rose thy bounty drest | A |
| To meet the rising son with od'rous breast | A |
| Which glow'd with artless tints at noon tide hour | Q |
| And shed soft tears upon each drooping flower | Q |
| With with'ring anguish mourn the parting Day | A |
| Shrink to the Earth and sorrowing fade away | A |
Mary Darby Robinson
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