Ode Written On The First Of January Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEG HIIF JFKI LKFM NOPQ KRFM STUV WXYZ A2B2FK C2D2IS EYGE2 DID2F2 C2FQG2| Come melancholy Moralizer come | A |
| Gather with me the dark and wintry wreath | B |
| With me engarland now | C |
| The SEPULCHRE OF TIME | D |
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| Come Moralizer to the funeral song | E |
| I pour the dirge of the Departed Days | F |
| For well the funeral song | E |
| Befits this solemn hour | G |
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| But hark even now the merry bells ring round | H |
| With clamorous joy to welcome in this day | I |
| This consecrated day | I |
| To Mirth and Indolence | F |
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| Mortal whilst Fortune with benignant hand | J |
| Fills to the brim thy cup of happiness | F |
| Whilst her unclouded sun | K |
| Illumes thy summer day | I |
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| Canst thou rejoice rejoice that Time flies fast | L |
| That Night shall shadow soon thy summer sun | K |
| That swift the stream of Years | F |
| Rolls to Eternity | M |
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| If thou hast wealth to gratify each wish | N |
| If Power be thine remember what thou art | O |
| Remember thou art Man | P |
| And Death thine heritage | Q |
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| Hast thou known Love does Beauty's better sun | K |
| Cheer thy fond heart with no capricious smile | R |
| Her eye all eloquence | F |
| Her voice all harmony | M |
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| Oh state of happiness hark how the gale | S |
| Moans deep and hollow o'er the leafless grove | T |
| Winter is dark and cold | U |
| Where now the charms of Spring | V |
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| Sayst thou that Fancy paints the future scene | W |
| In hues too sombrous that the dark stol'd Maid | X |
| With stern and frowning front | Y |
| Appals the shuddering soul | Z |
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| And would'st thou bid me court her faery form | A2 |
| When as she sports her in some happier mood | B2 |
| Her many colour'd robes | F |
| Dance varying to the Sun | K |
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| Ah vainly does the Pilgrim whose long road | C2 |
| Leads o'er the barren mountain's storm vext height | D2 |
| With anxious gaze survey | I |
| The fruitful far off vale | S |
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| Oh there are those who love the pensive song | E |
| To whom all sounds of Mirth are dissonant | Y |
| There are who at this hour | G |
| Will love to contemplate | E2 |
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| For hopeless Sorrow hails the lapse of Time | D |
| Rejoicing when the fading orb of day | I |
| Is sunk again in night | D2 |
| That one day more is gone | F2 |
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| And he who bears Affliction's heavy load | C2 |
| With patient piety well pleas'd he knows | F |
| The World a pilgrimage | Q |
| The Grave the inn of rest | G2 |
Robert Southey
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