Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE EEEEFFEE GGEEEEHIEEJJLove what is love a mere machine a spring | A |
For freaks fantastic a convenient thing | A |
A point to which each scribbling wight most steer | B |
Or vainly hope for food or favour here | C |
A summer's sigh a winter's wistful tale | D |
A sound at which th' untutor'd maid turns pale | D |
Her soft eyes languish and her bosom heaves | E |
And Hope delights as Fancy's dream deceives | E |
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Thus speaks the heart which cold disgust invades | E |
When time instructs and Hope's enchantment fades | E |
Through life's wide stage from sages down to kings | E |
The puppets move as art directs the strings | E |
Imperious beauty bows to sordid gold | F |
Her smiles whence heaven flows emanent are sold | F |
And affectation swells th' entrancing tones | E |
Which nature subjugates and truth disowns | E |
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I love th' ingenuous maiden practised not | G |
To pierce the heart with ambush'd glances shot | G |
From eyelashes whose shadowy length she knows | E |
To a hair's point their high arch when to close | E |
Half o'er the swimming orb and when to raise | E |
Disclosing all the artificial blaze | E |
Of unfelt passion which alone can move | H |
Him whom the genuine eloquence of love | I |
Affected never won with wanton wiles | E |
With soulless sighs and meretricious smiles | E |
By nature unimpress'd uncharm'd by thee | J |
Sweet goddess of my heart Simplicity | J |
Thomas Gent
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