The Lady's Looking-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGGAAA HHIIJJKL HGJJIIMNGG GGHHLLHH OPAAHH| Celia and I the other Day | A |
| Walk'd o'er the Sand Hills to the Sea | B |
| The setting Sun adorn'd the Coast | C |
| His Beams entire his Fierceness lost | D |
| And on the Surface of the Deep | E |
| The Winds lay only not asleep | E |
| The Nymph did like the Scene appear | F |
| Serenely pleasant calmly fair | G |
| Soft fell her words as flew the Air | G |
| With secret Joy I heard Her say | A |
| That She would never miss one Day | A |
| A Walk so fine a Sight so gay | A |
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| But oh the Change the Winds grow high | H |
| Impending Tempests charge the Sky | H |
| The Lightning flies the Thunder roars | I |
| And big Waves lash the frighten'd Shoars | I |
| Struck with the Horror of the Sight | J |
| She turns her Head and wings her Flight | J |
| And trembling vows She'll ne'er again | K |
| Approach the Shoar or view the Main | L |
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| Once more at least look back said I | H |
| Thy self in That large Glass descry | G |
| When Thou art in good Humour drest | J |
| When gentle Reason rules thy Breast | J |
| The Sun upon the calmest Sea | I |
| Appears not half so bright as Thee | I |
| 'Tis then that with Delight I rove | M |
| Upon the boundless Depth of Love | N |
| I bless my Chain I hand my Oar | G |
| Nor think on all I left on Shoar | G |
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| But when vain Doubt and groundless Fear | G |
| Do That Dear Foolish Bosom tear | G |
| When the big Lip and wat'ry Eye | H |
| Tell Me the rising Storm is nigh | H |
| 'Tis then Thou art yon' angry Main | L |
| Deform'd by Winds and dash'd by Rain | L |
| And the poor Sailor that must try | H |
| Its Fury labours less than I | H |
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| Shipwreck'd in vain to Land I make | O |
| While Love and Fate still drive Me back | P |
| Forc'd to doat on Thee thy own Way | A |
| I chide Thee first and then obey | A |
| Wretched when from Thee vex'd when nigh | H |
| I with Thee or without Thee die | H |
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