On Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHIJGGKLMM FFNNOOPPQQ OORRSSTT UUFFFVVWWXYAZThy various works imperial queen we see | A |
How bright their forms how deck'd with pomp by thee | A |
Thy wond'rous acts in beauteous order stand | B |
And all attest how potent is thine hand | B |
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From Helicon's refulgent heights attend | C |
Ye sacred choir and my attempts befriend | C |
To tell her glories with a faithful tongue | D |
Ye blooming graces triumph in my song | E |
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Now here now there the roving Fancy flies | F |
Till some lov'd object strikes her wand'ring eyes | F |
Whose silken fetters all the senses bind | G |
And soft captivity involves the mind | G |
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Imagination who can sing thy force | H |
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course | H |
Soaring through air to find the bright abode | I |
Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God | J |
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind | G |
And leave the rolling universe behind | G |
From star to star the mental optics rove | K |
Measure the skies and range the realms above | L |
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole | M |
Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul | M |
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Though Winter frowns to Fancy's raptur'd eyes | F |
The fields may flourish and gay scenes arise | F |
The frozen deeps may break their iron bands | N |
And bid their waters murmur o'er the sands | N |
Fair Flora may resume her fragrant reign | O |
And with her flow'ry riches deck the plain | O |
Sylvanus may diffuse his honours round | P |
And all the forest may with leaves be crown'd | P |
Show'rs may descend and dews their gems disclose | Q |
And nectar sparkle on the blooming rose | Q |
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Such is thy pow'r nor are thine orders vain | O |
O thou the leader of the mental train | O |
In full perfection all thy works are wrought | R |
And thine the sceptre o'er the realms of thought | R |
Before thy throne the subject passions bow | S |
Of subject passions sov'reign ruler thou | S |
At thy command joy rushes on the heart | T |
And through the glowing veins the spirits dart | T |
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Fancy might now her silken pinions try | U |
To rise from earth and sweep th' expanse on high | U |
From Tithon's bed now might Aurora rise | F |
Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies | F |
While a pure stream of light o'erflows the skies | F |
The monarch of the day I might behold | V |
And all the mountains tipt with radiant gold | V |
But I reluctant leave the pleasing views | W |
Which Fancy dresses to delight the Muse | W |
Winter austere forbids me to aspire | X |
And northern tempests damp the rising fire | Y |
They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea | A |
Cease then my song cease the unequal lay | Z |
Phillis Wheatley
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