The Copernican System Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEAAFFGGHHEEIJ KKLLCCMMNNFFOOLLPP| The Sun revolving on his axis turns | A |
| And with creative fire intensely burns | A |
| Impell'd by forcive air our Earth supreme | B |
| Rolls with the planets round the solar gleam | B |
| First Mercury completes his transient year | C |
| Glowing refulgent with reflected glare | D |
| Bright Venus occupies a wider way | E |
| The early harbinger of night and day | E |
| More distant still our globe terraqueous turns | A |
| Nor chills intense nor fiercely heated burns | A |
| Around her rolls the lunar orb of light | F |
| Trailing her silver glories through the night | F |
| On the Earth's orbit see the various signs | G |
| Mark where the Sun our year completing shines | G |
| First the bright Ram his languid ray improves | H |
| Next glaring watry thro' the Bull he moves | H |
| The am'rous Twins admit his genial ray | E |
| Now burning thro' the Crab he takes his way | E |
| The Lion flaming bears the solar power | I |
| The Virgin faints beneath the sultry show'r | J |
| Now the just Balance weighs his equal force | K |
| The slimy Serpent swelters in his course | K |
| The sabled Archer clouds his languid face | L |
| The Goat with tempests urges on his race | L |
| Now in the Wat'rer his faint beams appear | C |
| And the cold Fishes end the circling year | C |
| Beyond our globe the sanguine Mars displays | M |
| A strong reflection of primoeval rays | M |
| Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams | N |
| Scarcely enlighten'd with the solar beams | N |
| With four unfix'd receptacles of light | F |
| He tours majestic thro' the spacious height | F |
| But farther yet the tardy Saturn lags | O |
| And five attendant Luminaries drags | O |
| Investing with a double ring his pace | L |
| He circles thro' immensity of space | L |
| These are thy wondrous works first source of Good | P |
| Now more admir'd in being understood | P |
Thomas Chatterton
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