To A Gentleman On His Voyage To Great-britain For The Recovery Of His Health Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGHHIIJJGGKK LMNNOPQQHHII| While others chant of gay Elysian scenes | A |
| Of balmy zephyrs and of flow'ry plains | B |
| My song more happy speaks a greater name | C |
| Feels higher motives and a nobler flame | C |
| For thee O R the muse attunes her strings | D |
| And mounts sublime above inferior things | D |
| I sing not now of green embow'ring woods | E |
| I sing not now the daughters of the floods | F |
| I sing not of the storms o'er ocean driv'n | G |
| And how they howl'd along the waste of heav'n | G |
| But I to R would paint the British shore | H |
| And vast Atlantic not untry'd before | H |
| Thy life impair'd commands thee to arise | I |
| Leave these bleak regions and inclement skies | I |
| Where chilling winds return the winter past | J |
| And nature shudders at the furious blast | J |
| O thou stupendous earth enclosing main | G |
| Exert thy wonders to the world again | G |
| If ere thy pow'r prolong'd the fleeting breath | K |
| Turn'd back the shafts and mock'd the gates of death | K |
| If ere thine air dispens'd an healing pow'r | L |
| Or snatch'd the victim from the fatal hour | M |
| This equal case demands thine equal care | N |
| And equal wonders may this patient share | N |
| But unavailing frantic is the dream | O |
| To hope thine aid without the aid of him | P |
| Who gave thee birth and taught thee where to flow | Q |
| And in thy waves his various blessings show | Q |
| May R return to view his native shore | H |
| Replete with vigour not his own before | H |
| Then shall we see with pleasure and surprise | I |
| And own thy work great Ruler of the skies | I |
Phillis Wheatley
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