How Nature's Beauties Should Be Viewed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFFF DGDG HIHI JKJK LALA MNMN| Should man with microscopic eye | A |
| View the details of Nature's plan | B |
| Into each nook and corner pry | A |
| And needlessly the hidden scan | B |
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| Should he inspect each bud and flow'r | C |
| With close unmeant uncall'd for look | D |
| And by his analytic pow'r | C |
| Dissolve each charm of vale or brook | D |
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| Should he resolve the rainbow's hues | E |
| Into their prime and simple forms | F |
| And thus the charm dispel unloose | F |
| Which gladdens us amid the storms | F |
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| Should he with keen inquiring look | D |
| Insist on knowing seeing all | G |
| Which nature made a sealed book | D |
| On this our strange terrestrial ball | G |
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| 'Tis hard to draw the line indeed | H |
| When we should pry and when refrain | I |
| But science surely has its need | H |
| Of knowledge gain'd and also pain | I |
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| The blooming flow'r the flutt'ring leaf | J |
| Have surely charms we all can tell | K |
| And analysing brings to grief | J |
| The charms we felt and knew so well | K |
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| Th' untutor'd savage roaming wild | L |
| Could view the rainbow in the sky | A |
| And tho' in science but a child | L |
| He saw with gladden'd heart and eye | A |
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| And so I apprehend that we | M |
| Should oft restrain our thoughts and sight | N |
| Nor delve too far nor try to see | M |
| With deeper but more painful light | N |
Thomas Frederick Young
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