Songs Set To Music: 14. Set By Mr. Smith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLML CNCF OPOP| Once I was unconfined and free | A |
| Would I had been so still | B |
| Enjoying sweetest liberty | A |
| And roving at my will | B |
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| But now not master of my heart | C |
| Cupid does so decide | D |
| That two she tyrants shall it part | C |
| And so poor me divide | D |
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| Victoria's will I must obey | E |
| She acts without control | F |
| Phillis has such a taking way | E |
| She charms my very soul | F |
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| Deceived by Phillis' looks and smiles | G |
| Into her snares I run | H |
| Victoria shows me all her wiles | G |
| Which yet I dare not shun | H |
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| From one I fancy every kiss | I |
| Has something in't divine | J |
| And awful taste the balmy bliss | I |
| That joins her lips with mine | J |
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| But when with th' other I embrace | K |
| Though she be not a queen | L |
| Methinks 'tis sweet with such a lass | M |
| To tumble on the green | L |
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| Thus here you see a shared heart | C |
| But I meanwhile the fool | N |
| Each in it has an equal part | C |
| But neither yet the whole | F |
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| Nor will it if I right forecast | O |
| To either wholly yield | P |
| I find the time approaches fast | O |
| When both must quit the field | P |
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