To Miss --, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BBCCDDEEFGHHEIJJKKLL MNBBOOPPQPRRSSPP| On her playing upon the harpsichord in | A |
| a room hung with flower pieces of her own painting | B |
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| When Stella strikes the tuneful string | B |
| In scenes of imitated Spring | B |
| Where beauty lavishes her powers | C |
| On beds of never fading flowers | C |
| And pleasure propagates around | D |
| Each charm of modulated sound | D |
| Ah think not in the dangerous hour | E |
| The nymph fictitious as the flower | E |
| But shun rash youth the gay alcove | F |
| Nor tempt the snares of wily love | G |
| When charms thus press on every sense | H |
| What thought of flight or of defence | H |
| Deceitful hope and vain desire | E |
| For ever flutter o'er her lyre | I |
| Delighting as the youth draws nigh | J |
| To point the glances of her eye | J |
| And forming with unerring art | K |
| New chains to hold the captive heart | K |
| But on those regions of delight | L |
| Might truth intrude with daring flight | L |
| Could Stella sprightly fair and young | M |
| One moment hear the moral song | N |
| Instruction with her flowers might spring | B |
| And wisdom warble from her string | B |
| Mark when from thousand mingled dyes | O |
| Thou seest one pleasing form arise | O |
| How active light and thoughtful shade | P |
| In greater scenes each other aid | P |
| Mark when the different notes agree | Q |
| In friendly contrariety | P |
| How passion's well accorded strife | R |
| Gives all the harmony of life | R |
| Thy pictures shall thy conduct frame | S |
| Consistent still though not the same | S |
| Thy music teach the nobler art | P |
| To tune the regulated heart | P |
Samuel Johnson
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