The Natural Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKKLL MMFFNNDD| To Stella | A |
| - | |
| Whether Stella's eyes are found | B |
| Fix'd on earth or glancing round | B |
| If her face with pleasure glow | C |
| If she sigh at others' woe | C |
| If her easy air express | D |
| Conscious worth or soft distress | D |
| Stella's eyes and air and face | E |
| Charm with undiminish'd grace | E |
| If on her we see display'd | F |
| Pendent gems and rich brocade | F |
| If her chintz with less expense | G |
| Flows in easy negligence | H |
| Still she lights the conscious flame | I |
| Still her charms appear the same | I |
| If she strikes the vocal strings | J |
| If she's silent speaks or sings | J |
| If she sit or if she move | K |
| Still we love and still approve | K |
| Vain the casual transient glance | L |
| Which alone can please by chance | L |
| Beauty which depends on art | M |
| Changing with the changing art | M |
| Which demands the toilet's aid | F |
| Pendent gems and rich brocade | F |
| I those charms alone can prize | N |
| Which from constant Nature rise | N |
| Which nor circumstance nor dress | D |
| E'er can make or more or less | D |
Samuel Johnson
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