Ode To Melancholy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA DDEEFGFGHH IIHHJKKJLLMM NNHHOJJPQRQRSS TUUTNNOP VWWVNN EHHEUU| SORC'RESS of the Cave profound | A |
| Hence with thy pale and meagre train | B |
| Nor dare my roseate bow'r profane | B |
| Where light heel'd mirth despotic reigns | C |
| Slightly bound in feath'ry chains | C |
| And scatt'ring blisses round | A |
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| Hence to thy native Chaos where | D |
| Nurs'd by thy haggard Dam DESPAIR | D |
| Shackled by thy numbing spell | E |
| Mis'ry's pallid children dwell | E |
| Where brooding o'er thy fatal charms | F |
| FRENZY rolls the vacant eye | G |
| Where hopeless LOVE with folded arms | F |
| Drops the tear and heaves the sigh | G |
| Till cherish'd Passion's tyrant sway | H |
| Chills the warm pulse of Youth with premature decay | H |
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| O fly Thee to some Church yard's gloom | I |
| Where beside the mould'ring tomb | I |
| Restless Spectres glide away | H |
| Fading in the glimpse of Day | H |
| Or where the Virgin ORB of Night | J |
| Silvers o'er the Forest wide | K |
| Or across the silent tide | K |
| Flings her soft and quiv'ring light | J |
| Where beneath some aged Tree | L |
| Sounds of mournful Melody | L |
| Caught from the NIGHTINGALE's enamour'd Tale | M |
| Steal on faint Echo's ear and float upon the gale | M |
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| DREAD POW'R whose touch magnetic leads | N |
| O'er enchanted spangled meads | N |
| Where by the glow worm's twinkling ray | H |
| A ry Spirits lightly play | H |
| Where around some Haunted Tow'r | O |
| Boding Ravens wing their flight | J |
| Viewless in the gloom of Night | J |
| Warning oft the luckless hour | P |
| Or beside the Murd'rer's bed | Q |
| From thy dark and morbid wing | R |
| O'er his fev'rish burning head | Q |
| Drops of conscious auguish fling | R |
| While freezing HORROR's direful scream | S |
| Rouses his guilty soul from kind oblivion's dream | S |
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| Oft beneath the witching Yew | T |
| The trembling MAID steals forth unseen | U |
| With true love wreaths of deathless green | U |
| Her Lover's grave to strew | T |
| Her downcast Eye no joy illumes | N |
| Nor on her Cheek the soft Rose blooms | N |
| Her mourning Heart the victim of thy pow'r | O |
| Shrinks from the glare of Mirth and hails the MURKY HOUR | P |
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| O say what FIEND first gave thee birth | V |
| In what fell Desart wert thou born | W |
| Why does thy hollow voice forlorn | W |
| So fascinate the Sons of Earth | V |
| That once encircled in thy icy arms | N |
| They court thy torpid touch and doat upon thy Charms | N |
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| HATED IMP I brave thy Spell | E |
| REASON shuns thy barb'rous sway | H |
| Life with mirth should glide away | H |
| Despondency with guilt should dwell | E |
| For conscious TRUTH's unruffled mien | U |
| Displays the dauntless Eye and patient smile serene | U |
Mary Darby Robinson
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