An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGH IJIJDD KLMLNO PQRQSS TNUOVV WXWYNO UZA2ZB2B2 C2D2C2D2NO| While blooming youth and gay delight | A |
| Sit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd | B |
| Thou hast my dear undoubted right | A |
| To triumph o'er this destined breast | B |
| My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain | C |
| For I was born to love and thou to reign | C |
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| But would you meanly thus rely | D |
| On power you know I must obey | E |
| Exert a legal tyranny | F |
| And do an ill because you may | E |
| Still must I thee as Atheists Heaven adore | G |
| Not see thy mercy and yet dread thy power | H |
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| Take heed my dear youth flies apace | I |
| As well as Cupid Time is blind | J |
| Soon must those glories of thy face | I |
| The fate of vulgar beauty find | J |
| The thousand Loves that arm thy potent eye | D |
| Must drop their quivers flag their wings and die | D |
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| Then wilt thou sigh when in each frown | K |
| A hateful wrinkle more appears | L |
| And putting peevish humours on | M |
| Seems but the sad effect of years | L |
| Kindness itself too weak a charm will prove | N |
| To raise the feeble fires of aged love | O |
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| Forced compliments and formal bows | P |
| Will show thee just above neglect | Q |
| The heat with which thy lover glows | R |
| Will settle into cold respect | Q |
| A talking dull Platonic I shall turn | S |
| Learn to be civil when I cease to burn | S |
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| Then shun the ill and know my dear | T |
| Kindness and constancy will prove | N |
| The only pillars fit to bear | U |
| So vast a weight as that of love | O |
| If thou canst wish to make my flames endure | V |
| Thine must be very fierce and very pure | V |
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| Haste Celia haste while youth invites | W |
| Obey kind Cupid's present voice | X |
| Fill every sense with soft delights | W |
| And give thy soul a loose to joys | Y |
| Let millions of repeated blisses prove | N |
| That thou all kindness art and I all love | O |
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| Be mine and only mine take care | U |
| Thy looks thy thoughts thy dreams to guide | Z |
| To me alone nor come so far | A2 |
| As liking any youth beside | Z |
| What men e'er court thee fly them and believe | B2 |
| They're serpents all and thou the tempted Eve | B2 |
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| So shall I court thy dearest truth | C2 |
| When beauty ceases to engage | D2 |
| So thinking on thy charming youth | C2 |
| I'll love it o'er again in age | D2 |
| So time itself our raptures shall improve | N |
| While still we wake to joy and live to love | O |
Matthew Prior
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