A Word To Two Young Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ HKHL G MNOOFG| WHEN tender Rose trees first receive | A |
| On half expanded Leaves the Shower | B |
| Hope's gayest pictures we believe | A |
| And anxious watch each coining flower | B |
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| Then if beneath the genial Sun | C |
| That spreads abroad the full blown May | D |
| Two infant Stems the rest out run | C |
| Their buds the first to meet the day | D |
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| With joy their op'ning tints we view | E |
| While morning's precious moments fly | F |
| My pretty Maids 'tis thus with you | E |
| The fond admiring gazer I | F |
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| Preserve sweet Buds where'er you be | G |
| The richest gem that decks a Wife | H |
| The charm of female modesty | G |
| And let sweet Music give it life | H |
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| Still may the favouring Muse be found | I |
| Still circumspect the paths ye tread | J |
| Plant moral truths in Fancy's ground | I |
| And meet old Age without a dread | J |
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| Yet ere that comes while yet ye quaff | H |
| The cup of Health without a pain | K |
| I'll shake my grey hairs when you laugh | H |
| And when you sing be young again | L |
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| Both the young Ladies had addressed to me a few complimentary lines and I am sorry that those of the elder sister were never in my possession in return for which I sent the above It was received on the day on which the younger completed her ninth year Surely it cannot be ascribed to vanity if in gratitude to a most amiable family I here preserve verbatim an effort of a child nine years old I hare the more pleasure in doing it because I know them to be her own R B | G |
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| Accept dear Bard the Muse's genuine thought | M |
| And take not ill the tribute of my heart | N |
| For thee the laureat wreath of praise I'll bind | O |
| None that have read thy commendable mind | O |
| Can let it pass unnotic'd nor can I | F |
| For by thy lays I know thy sympathy F P | G |
Robert Bloomfield
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