Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DCDC CCCC CECE BFBF GHGH CICJ CKCKStern Winter now by Spring repress'd | A |
Forbears the long continued strife | B |
And Nature on her naked breast | A |
Delights to catch the gales of life | B |
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Now o'er the rural kingdom roves | C |
Soft pleasures with her laughing train | D |
Love warbles in the vocal groves | C |
And vegetation plants the plain | D |
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Unhappy whom to beds of pain | D |
Arthritic tyranny consigns | C |
Whom smiling Nature courts in vain | D |
Though rapture sings and beauty shines | C |
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Yet though my limbs disease invades | C |
Her wings imagination tries | C |
And bears me to the peaceful shades | C |
Where 's humble turrets rise | C |
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Here let me through the vales pursue | C |
A guide a father and a friend | E |
Once more great Nature's works renew | C |
Once more on Wisdom's voice attend | E |
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From false caresses causeless strife | B |
Wild hope vain fear alike removed | F |
Here let me learn the use of life | B |
When best enjoy'd when most improved | F |
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Teach me thou venerable bower | G |
Cool meditation's quiet seat | H |
The generous scorn of venal power | G |
The silent grandeur of retreat | H |
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When pride by guilt to greatness climbs | C |
Or raging factions rush to war | I |
Here let me learn to shun the crimes | C |
I can't prevent and will not share | J |
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But lest I fall by subtler foes | C |
Bright wisdom teach me Curio's art | K |
The swelling passions to compose | C |
And quell the rebels of the heart | K |
Samuel Johnson
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