To My Own Minature Picture Taken At Two Years Of Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNMOPAQR QDPSTUPPVURWXYZA2B2Y| And I was once like this that glowing cheek | A |
| Was mine those pleasure sparkling eyes that brow | B |
| Smooth as the level lake when not a breeze | C |
| Dies o'er the sleeping surface twenty years | D |
| Have wrought strange alteration Of the friends | E |
| Who once so dearly prized this miniature | F |
| And loved it for its likeness some are gone | G |
| To their last home and some estranged in heart | H |
| Beholding me with quick averted glance | I |
| Pass on the other side But still these hues | J |
| Remain unalter'd and these features wear | K |
| The look of Infancy and Innocence | L |
| I search myself in vain and find no trace | M |
| Of what I was those lightly arching lines | N |
| Dark and o'erhanging now and that mild face | M |
| Settled in these strong lineaments There were | O |
| Who form'd high hopes and flattering ones of thee | P |
| Young Robert for thine eye was quick to speak | A |
| Each opening feeling should they not have known | Q |
| When the rich rainbow on the morning cloud | R |
| Reflects its radiant dies the husbandman | Q |
| Beholds the ominous glory sad and fears | D |
| Impending storms they augur'd happily | P |
| For thou didst love each wild and wonderous tale | S |
| Of faery fiction and thine infant tongue | T |
| Lisp'd with delight the godlike deeds of Greece | U |
| And rising Rome therefore they deem'd forsooth | P |
| That thou shouldst tread PREFERMENT'S pleasant path | P |
| Ill judging ones they let thy little feet | V |
| Stray in the pleasant paths of POESY | U |
| And when thou shouldst have prest amid the crowd | R |
| There didst thou love to linger out the day | W |
| Loitering beneath the laurels barren shade | X |
| SPIRIT of SPENSER was the wanderer wrong | Y |
| This little picture was for ornament | Z |
| Design'd to shine amid the motley mob | A2 |
| Of Fashion and of Folly is it not | B2 |
| More honour'd by this solitary song | Y |
Robert Southey
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