On The Beautiful Portrait Of Mrs. Foreman, As Pandora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEFGGHHIJHHHHHH HHCC| In the Somerset house Exhibition Painted by J P Davis | A |
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| Oh had'st thou Jove with adamantine locks | B |
| Fix'd fast the springs of poor Pandora's box | B |
| Then had she bright enchantment bloom'd for ever | C |
| In all the charms consenting Gods could give her | C |
| Wit Wisdom Beauty she had every grace | D |
| Which makes man play the madman for a face | D |
| But chief bless'd gift for him ordain'd to ask it | E |
| The gem of gems th' incomparable casket | F |
| And lo with trembling hands and ardent eyes | G |
| The bridegroom claims it and behold the prize | G |
| First like a vapour o'er the heavens obscured | H |
| From that dark confine rose the fiends immured | H |
| Then groan'd the earth in fury swell'd the floods | I |
| Blasts smote the harvests lightning fired the woods | J |
| Blue spotted Plague rode gibbering on the blast | H |
| And nations shriek'd and perish'd as he pass'd | H |
| Amazed indignant Epimetheus stood | H |
| Vow'd dire revenge and strung his nerves for blood | H |
| It was not then that from the coffer's lid | H |
| Hope's roseate smile his fierce delirium chid | H |
| He saw in that fair wife which heaven had sent | H |
| But mighty Mischiefs mortal instrument | H |
| And swore not Hope nor Mercy's self should save her | C |
| Look'd in her face smiled sigh'd and then forgave her | C |
Thomas Gent
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