To Miss Hickman, Playing The Spinet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBAAACCDDEEFEGHII| Bright Stella form'd for universal reign | A |
| Too well you know to keep the slaves you gain | A |
| When in your eyes resistless lightnings play | B |
| Awed into love our conquer'd hearts obey | B |
| And yield reluctant to despotic sway | B |
| But when your music soothes the raging pain | A |
| We bid propitious heaven prolong your reign | A |
| We bless the tyrant and we hug the chain | A |
| When old Timotheus struck the vocal string | C |
| Ambition's fury fired the Grecian king | C |
| Unbounded projects labouring in his mind | D |
| He pants for room in one poor world confined | D |
| Thus waked to rage by music's dreadful power | E |
| He bids the sword destroy the flame devour | E |
| Had Stella's gentle touches moved the lyre | F |
| Soon had the monarch felt the nobler fire | E |
| No more delighted with destructive war | G |
| Ambitious only now to please the fair | H |
| Resign'd his thirst of empire to her charms | I |
| And found a thousand worlds in Stella's arms | I |
Samuel Johnson
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