Pastoral Stanzas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGFG DHDH IJIJ KLKM JGJG| WHEN AURORA'S soft blushes o'erspread the blue hill | A |
| And the mist dies away at the glances of morn | B |
| When the birds join the music that floats on the rill | A |
| And the beauties of spring the young woodlands adorn | B |
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| To breathe the pure air and enliven my soul | C |
| I bound from my cottage exulting and gay | D |
| No care to molest me no pow'r to controul | C |
| I sport with my lambkins as thoughtless as they | D |
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| Yet the bright tear of pity bedews my fond eyes | E |
| When I think that for MAN the dear victims must fall | C |
| While nature such stores of provision supplies | E |
| And the bounties of Heaven are common to all | C |
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| Ah tell me Reflection why custom decreed | F |
| That the sweet feather'd songsters so slaughter'd should be | G |
| For the board of the rich the poor minstrels may bleed | F |
| But the fruits of the field are sufficient for me | G |
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| When I view the proud palace so pompously gay | D |
| Whose high gilded turrets peep over the trees | H |
| I pity its greatness and mournfully say | D |
| Can mortals delight in such trifles as these | H |
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| Can a pillow of down sooth the woe stricken mind | I |
| Can the sweets of Arabia calm sickness and pain | J |
| Can fetters of gold Love's true votaries bind | I |
| Or the gems of Peru Time's light pinions restrain | J |
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| Can those limbs which bow down beneath sorrow and age | K |
| From the floss of the silk worm fresh vigour receive | L |
| Can the pomp of the proud death's grim tyrant assuage | K |
| Can it teach you to die or instruct you to live | M |
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| Ah no then sweet PEACE lovely offspring of Heav'n | J |
| Come dwell in my cottage thy handmaid I'll be | G |
| Thus my youth shall pass on unmolested and even | J |
| And the winter of age be enliven'd by thee | G |
Mary Darby Robinson
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