A Sketch From Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPDGQL HD| She sat in beauty like some form of nymph | A |
| Or naiad on the mossy purpled bank | B |
| Of her wild woodland stream that at her feet | C |
| Linger'd and play'd and dimpled as in love | D |
| Or like those shapes that on the western clouds | E |
| Spread gold dropp'd plumes and sing to harps of pearl | F |
| And teach the evening winds their melody | G |
| How shall I tell her beauty for the eye | H |
| Fix'd on the sun is blinded by its beam | I |
| One glance and then no more upon that brow | J |
| Brighter than marble shining through those curls | K |
| Richer than hyacinths when they wave their bells | L |
| In the low breathing of the twilight wind | M |
| One glance upon that lip beside whose hue | N |
| The morning rose would sicken and grow pale | O |
| 'Till it was waked again by the soft breath | P |
| That steals in music from those lips of love | D |
| Wert thou a statue I could pine for thee | G |
| But in thy living beauty there is awe | Q |
| The sacredness of modesty enshrines | L |
| The ruby lip bright brow and beaming eye | H |
| I dare but worship what I must not love | D |
Thomas Gent
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