To A Young Lady, On Her Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIBBBThis tributary verse receive my fair | A |
Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer | A |
May this returning day for ever find | B |
Thy form more lovely more adorn'd thy mind | B |
All pains all cares may favouring heaven remove | C |
All but the sweet solicitudes of love | D |
May powerful nature join with grateful art | E |
To point each glance and force it to the heart | E |
O then when conquer'd crowds confess thy sway | F |
When even proud wealth and prouder wit obey | F |
My fair be mindful of the mighty trust | G |
Alas 'tis hard for beauty to be just | G |
Those sovereign charms with strictest care employ | H |
Nor give the generous pain the worthless joy | H |
With his own form acquaint the forward fool | I |
Shown in the mimic glass of ridicule | I |
Teach mimic censure her own faults to find | B |
No more let coquettes to themselves be blind | B |
So shall Belinda's charms improve mankind | B |
Samuel Johnson
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