Lines Written In Hornsey Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IJKKAALMNOPPAAQQRR SSTTUV WWXXYZEEAAA2A2 B2B2C2C2D2D2GGSSE2KF 2F2IJG2G2F2F2 AAJJAAAASSH2H2I2I2AAOh ye who pine in London smoke immured | A |
With spirits wearied and with pains uncured | A |
With all the catalogue of city evils | B |
Colds asthmas rheumatism coughs blue devils | B |
Who bid each bold empiric roll in wealth | C |
Who drains your fortunes while he saps your health | C |
So well ye love your dirty streets and lanes | D |
Ye court your ailments and embrace your pains | D |
And scarce ye know so little have ye seen | E |
If corn be yellow or if grass be green | E |
Why leave ye not your smoke obstructed holes | F |
With wholesome air to cheer your sickly souls | F |
In scenes where Health's bright goddess wakes the breeze | G |
Floats on the stream and fans the whisp'ring trees | G |
Soon would the brighten'd eye her influence speak | H |
And her full roses flush the faded cheek | H |
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Then where romantic Hornsey courts the eye | I |
With all the charms of sylvan scenery | J |
Let the pale sons of Diligence repair | K |
And pause like me from sedentary care | K |
Here the rich landscape spreads profusely wide | A |
And here embowering shades the prospect hide | A |
Each mazy walk in wild meanders moves | L |
And infant oaks luxuriant grace the groves | M |
Oaks that by time matured removed afar | N |
Shall ride triumphant 'midst the wat'ry war | O |
Shall blast the bulwarks of Britannia's foes | P |
And claim her empire wide as ocean flows | P |
O'er all the scene mellifluous and bland | A |
The blissful powers of harmony expand | A |
Soft sigh the zephyrs 'mid the still retreats | Q |
And steal from Flora's lips ambrosial sweets | Q |
Their notes of love the feather'd songsters sing | R |
And Cupid peeps behind the vest of Spring | R |
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Ye swains who ne'er obtain'd with all your sighs | S |
One tender look from Chloe's sparkling eyes | S |
In shades like these her cruelty assail | T |
Here whisper soft your amatory tale | T |
The scene to sympathy the maid shall move | U |
And smiles propitious crown your slighted love | V |
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While the fresh air with fragrance summer fills | W |
And lifts her voice heard jocund o'er the hills | W |
All jubilant the waving woods display | X |
Her gorgeous gifts magnificently gay | X |
The wond'ring eye beholds these waving woods | Y |
Reflected bright in artificial floods | Z |
And still the tufts of clust'ring shrubs between | E |
Like passing sprites the nymphs and swains are seen | E |
Till fancy triumphs in th'exulting breast | A |
And Care shrinks back astonish'd dispossess'd | A |
For all breathes rapture all enchantment seems | A2 |
Like fairy visions and poetic dreams | A2 |
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Though on such scenes the fancy loves to dwell | B2 |
The stomach oft a different tale will tell | B2 |
Then leave the wood and seek the shelt'ring roof | C2 |
And put the pantry's vital strength to proof | C2 |
The aerial banquets of the tuneful nine | D2 |
May suit some appetites but faith not mine | D2 |
For my coarse palate coarser food must please | G |
Substantial beef pies puddings ducks and peas | G |
Such food the fangs of keen disease defies | S |
And such rare feeding Hornsey house supplies | S |
Nor these alone the joys that court us here | E2 |
Wine generous wine that drowns corroding care | K |
Asserts its empire in the glittering bowl | F2 |
And pours Promethean vigour o'er the soul | F2 |
Here too that bluff John Bull whose blood boils high | I |
At such base wares of foreign luxury | J |
Who scorns to revel in imported cheer | G2 |
Who prides in perry and exults in beer | G2 |
On these his surly virtue shall regale | F2 |
With quickening cyder and with fattening ale | F2 |
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Nor think ye Fair our Hornsey has denied | A |
The elegant repasts where you preside | A |
Here may the heart rejoice expanding free | J |
In all the social luxury of Tea | J |
Whose essence pure inspires such charming chat | A |
With nods and winks and whispers and all that | A |
Here then while 'wrapt inspired like Horace old | A |
We chant convivial hymns to Bacchus bold | A |
Or heave the incense of unconscious sighs | S |
To catch the grace that beams from beauty's eyes | S |
Or in the winding wilds sequester'd deep | H2 |
Th' unwilling Muse invoking fall asleep | H2 |
Or cursing her and her ungranted smiles | I2 |
Chase butterflies along the echoing aisles | I2 |
Howe'er employ'd here be the town forgot | A |
Where fogs and smoke and jostling crowds are not | A |
Thomas Gent
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