A Visit To Renelagh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB D EBEBFBFB GHGHIBIB JKLKIBIB M NONOPBHB GNGNQBQB RSTSUBUB BVBVWBWB| To Ranelagh once in my life | A |
| By good natur'd force I was driv'n | B |
| The nations had ceas'd their long strife | A |
| And PEACE beam'd her radiance from Heav'n | B |
| What wonders were there to be found | C |
| That a clown might enjoy or disdain | B |
| First we trac'd the gay ring all around | C |
| Aye and then we went round it again | B |
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| Footnote A grand Fete in honour of the peace of | D |
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| A thousand feet rustled on mats | E |
| A carpet that once had been green | B |
| Men bow'd with their outlandish hats | E |
| With corners so fearfully keen | B |
| Fair maids who at home in their haste | F |
| Had left all clothing else but a train | B |
| Swept the floor clean as slowly they pac'd | F |
| And then walk'd round and swept it again | B |
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| The music was truly enchanting | G |
| Right glad was I when I came near it | H |
| But in fashion I found I was wanting | G |
| 'Twas the fashion to walk and not hear it | H |
| A fine youth as beauty beset him | I |
| Look'd smilingly round on the train | B |
| The king's nephew they cried as they met him | I |
| Then we went round and met him again | B |
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| Huge paintings of Heroes and Peace | J |
| Seem'd to smile at the sound of the fiddle | K |
| Proud to fill up each tall shining space | L |
| Round the lanthorn that stood in the middle | K |
| And GEORGE'S head too Heav'n screen him | I |
| May he finish in peace his long reign | B |
| And what did we when we had seen him | I |
| Why went round and saw him again | B |
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| Footnote The intervals between the pillars in the centre of the Rotunda were filled up by transparent paintings | M |
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| A bell rang announcing new pleasures | N |
| A crowd in an instant prest hard | O |
| Feathers nodded perfumes shed their treasures | N |
| Round a door that led into the yard | O |
| 'Twas peopled all o'er in a minute | P |
| As a white flock would cover a plain | B |
| We had seen every soul that was in it | H |
| Then we went round and saw them again | B |
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| But now came a scene worth the showing | G |
| The fireworks midst langhs and huzzas | N |
| With explosions the sky was all glowing | G |
| Then down stream'd a million of stars | N |
| With a rush the bright rockets ascended | Q |
| Wheels spurted blue fires like a rain | B |
| We turn'd with regret when 'twas ended | Q |
| Then star'd at each other again | B |
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| There thousands of gay lamps aspir'd | R |
| To the tops of the trees and beyond | S |
| And what was most hugely admir'd | T |
| They look'd all up side down in a pond | S |
| The blaze scarce an eagle could bear | U |
| And an owl had most surely been slain | B |
| We return'd to the circle and there | U |
| And there we went round it again | B |
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| 'Tis not wisdom to love without reason | B |
| Or to censure without knowing why | V |
| I had witness'd no crime nor no treason | B |
| O Life 'tis thy picture said I | V |
| 'Tis just thus we saunter along | W |
| Months and years bring their pleasures or pain | B |
| We sigh midst the right and the wrong | W |
| And then we go round them again | B |
Robert Bloomfield
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