Written April The 18th, 1796 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGG HHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPP QQRRSSTUQQVV WWXXLLYTUUHHPP UUTY XXZZA2A2FF| The beauteous queen of social love | A |
| Descending from the realms above | A |
| Through the wide space of ether flew | B |
| With care this little world to view | B |
| Till tir'd with wandering at the last | C |
| Through every different climate past | C |
| She sought not out a splendid dome | D |
| But made this humble cot her home | D |
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| The sweetest lyre would strive in vain | E |
| To sing the pleasures of her reign | E |
| Whose powerful influence does impart | F |
| New softness to the feeling heart | F |
| Bids it each narrow thought resign | G |
| And fills it with a warmth benign | G |
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| From morning till the close of day | H |
| Here all a grateful homage pay | H |
| For here she plays her harmless wiles | I |
| And scatters her endearing smiles | I |
| Here no proud rivals intervene | J |
| And all though glowing is serene | J |
| Here since she first her visit paid | K |
| Still has the sweet enchantress staid | K |
| And never met a single slight | L |
| Or spread her snowy plumes for flight | L |
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| Contented 'neath the humble roof | M |
| No timid heart is kept aloof | M |
| A kind and condescending guest | N |
| She lightens each despairing breast | N |
| Where pain her poignant venom spreads | O |
| The balm of tenderness she sheds | O |
| Which breathes a calm repose around | P |
| And heals at last the burning wound | P |
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| When the heart throbs with bitter woe | Q |
| Her winning mien disarms the foe | Q |
| And the kind glances of her eye | R |
| Force the desponding power to fly | R |
| She gives a zest to every joy | S |
| Forbids tranquillity to cloy | S |
| Softens misfortune chases fear | T |
| And balm distills in every tear | U |
| 'Tis she alone can make us know | Q |
| A truly blissful hour below | Q |
| Can smooth the furrow'd brow of life | V |
| And hush the thundering voice of strife | V |
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| O may she still exert her power | W |
| Still lead us to the rural bower | W |
| Which vaunting Pride does ne'er disgrace | X |
| Or critic Envy's spiteful face | X |
| Here Raymond ever shall delight | L |
| To sit and watch the closing night | L |
| And open hearted Gertrude here | Y |
| With her sweet infant shall appear | T |
| Here oft her brother shall prepare | U |
| A wreath for Mary's curling hair | U |
| While soft voic'd Anna fond of play | H |
| And all the train alert and gay | H |
| In healthful games shall frolic round | P |
| And revel on the mossy ground | P |
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| Here Edmund shall forget his care | U |
| And often fill an elbow chair | U |
| While Sophia friendly and sincere | T |
| Shall ever find a welcome here | Y |
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| Yet would my hovering fancy trace | X |
| The features of each happy face | X |
| And sympathy informs my mind | Z |
| That they the same emotions find | Z |
| That in each scene of harmless glee | A2 |
| Memory recalls the absent three | A2 |
| And all though distance strives to part | F |
| Will hold communion in the heart | F |
Matilda Betham
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