Invita Minerva Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Not of desire alone is music born | A |
| Not till the Muse wills is our passion crowned | B |
| Unsought she comes if sought but seldom found | B |
| Repaying thus our longing with her scorn | A |
| Hence is it poets often are forlorn | A |
| In super subtle chains of silence bound | B |
| And mid the crowds that compass them around | B |
| Still dwell in isolation night and morn | A |
| With knitted brow and cheek all passion pale | C |
| Showing the baffled purpose of the mind | D |
| Hence is it I that find no prayers avail | C |
| To move my Lyric mistress to be kind | D |
| Have stolen away into this leafy dale | C |
| Drawn by the flutings of the silvery wind | D |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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