Rhapsody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIIJKLMIKNOP LQRSRTIIUVW R| Lo here a cloud comes sailing richly clad | A |
| In royal purple which the parting beams | B |
| Of bounteous Phoebus edge with tints of gold | C |
| And lucid crimson One might fancy it | D |
| A noble bird that laves its graceful form | E |
| And bathes its rosy bosom in the light | F |
| Look how it swells and rears its snowy crest | G |
| With haughty grandeur while the blue expanse | H |
| In smiling patience lets the boaster pass | I |
| And swell his train with all the lazy vapours | I |
| That hover in the air an easy prey | J |
| To the gigantic phantom whose curl'd wing | K |
| Sweeps in these worthless triflers of the sky | L |
| And wraps them in his bosom Go vain shadow | M |
| Sick with the burthen of thy fancied greatness | I |
| A breath of zephyr wafts thee into nothing | K |
| Scatters thy spreading plumes uncrowns thy front | N |
| And drives thee downward to thy mother earth | O |
| To mix with vapour and dissolve in dew | P |
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| Such are the dreams of hope which to the eye | L |
| Of youthful inexperience seem to touch | Q |
| The pure unclouded sky of certainty | R |
| Buoy'd up by the fond eloquence of thought | S |
| And nurtur'd by the smile of vanity | R |
| Each hour the air born vision gathers bulk | T |
| And Fancy decks it with a thousand hues | I |
| Varied and wild till it abounds in charms | I |
| Which sink the soul to sadness when the breath | U |
| Of gentle Reason breaks the beauteous bubble | V |
| And leaves us nought but vain regret behind | W |
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| FEBRUARY | R |
Matilda Betham
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