Written On Whitsun-monday, 1795 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKFGFG BEBELKMK ANANBGBG OFOFPGPG QRQRFGFG SLT| At an open window sitting | A |
| On this day of mirth and glee | B |
| 'Cross a flow'ry vista flitting | A |
| Many passing forms I see | B |
| Ah lovely prospect stay awhile | C |
| And longer glad my doating eye | D |
| With poverty's delighted smile | C |
| And lighten'd step as passing by | D |
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| With labour's spruce and ruddy train | E |
| Deck'd out in all their best array | F |
| Who months of toil and care disdain | E |
| Paid by the pleasures of a day | F |
| The village girl still let me view | G |
| Hast'ning to the neighb'ring fair | H |
| Her cap adorn'd with pink or blue | G |
| And nicely smooth her glossy hair | H |
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| With sparkling eye and smiling face | I |
| Ting'd o'er with beauty's warmest glow | J |
| With timid air and Rumble grace | I |
| With clear and undepressed brow | K |
| Go lovely girl and share the day | F |
| To thy industrious merit due | G |
| There join the dance or choral lay | F |
| Thou blooming village rose adieu | G |
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| And thou O youth so blythe and free | B |
| Bounding swiftly o'er the plain | E |
| Go taste the joys of liberty | B |
| And cheer thy spirit happy swain | E |
| How different to the lonely hour | L |
| When slowly following the plough | K |
| Self buoyant joy forgets the pow'r | M |
| Which warms thy gladden'd bosom now | K |
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| If some rural prize desiring | A |
| Or ambitious of applause | N |
| Loud huzzas thy wishes firing | A |
| Thy steady hand the furrow draws | N |
| Ne'er a victor fam'd in story | B |
| Greater praise and reverence drew | G |
| Than thou attir'd in humble glory | B |
| So guiltless conqueror adieu | G |
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| Oh here a charming group appears | O |
| A cottage family so gay | F |
| Whose youthful hopes uncheck'd by fears | O |
| In smiles of thoughtless rapture play | F |
| Here borne in fond parental arms | P |
| The infant's roving eye we view | G |
| Boasting a thousand thousand charms | P |
| Endearing innocents adieu | G |
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| They go no more with beating heart | Q |
| And lively dancing step to tread | R |
| Unwillingly will they depart | Q |
| To seek again their homely shed | R |
| Ah Eve I love thy veil of grey | F |
| Which will conceal them from my view | G |
| For bending home their weary way | F |
| How sad would be our last adieu | G |
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| The following was suggested by reading a whimsical description given | S |
| by Scarron of the deformity of his person contrasted with its former | L |
| elegance in the Curiosities of Literature vol page | T |
Matilda Betham
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