Songs Set To Music: 12. Set By Mr. Smith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD EFEGSince my words though ne'er so tender | A |
With sincerest truth express'd | B |
Cannot make your heart surrender | A |
Nor so much as warm your breast | B |
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What will move the springs of Nature | A |
What will make you think me true | C |
Tell me thou mysterious creature | A |
Tell poor Strephon what will do | C |
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Do not Charmion rack your lover | A |
Thus by seeming not to know | D |
What so plainly all discover | A |
What his eyes so plainly show | D |
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Fair one 'tis yourself deceiving | E |
'Tis against your reason's laws | F |
Atheist like th' effect perceiving | E |
Still to disbelieve the cause | G |
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