An Hymn To The Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHCCFFBB| Attend my lays ye ever honour'd nine | A |
| Assist my labours and my strains refine | A |
| In smoothest numbers pour the notes along | B |
| For bright Aurora now demands my song | B |
| Aurora hail and all the thousand dies | C |
| Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies | C |
| The morn awakes and wide extends her rays | D |
| On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays | D |
| Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume | E |
| Dart the bright eye and shake the painted plume | E |
| Ye shady groves your verdant gloom display | F |
| To shield your poet from the burning day | F |
| Calliope awake the sacred lyre | G |
| While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire | H |
| The bow'rs the gales the variegated skies | C |
| In all their pleasures in my bosom rise | C |
| See in the east th' illustrious king of day | F |
| His rising radiance drives the shades away | F |
| But Oh I feel his fervid beams too strong | B |
| And scarce begun concludes th' abortive song | B |
Phillis Wheatley
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