Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFFGGHHGGIIJJ KKLLJMJJGG GGGIIGGNNGG JJOOGGPPMMJJJJQQGG IIJJFFIITis sweet in boyhood's visionary mood | A |
When glowing Fancy innocently gay | B |
Flings forth like motes her bright aerial brood | A |
To dance and shine in Hope's prolific ray | B |
'Tis sweet unweeting how the flight of years | C |
May darkling roll in trials and in tears | D |
To dress the future in what garb we list | E |
And shape the thousand joys that never may exist | E |
But he sad wight of all that feverish train | F |
Fool'd by those phantoms of the wizard brain | F |
Most wildly dotes whom young ambition stings | G |
To trust his weight upon poetic wings | G |
He downward looking in his airy ride | H |
Beholds Elysium bloom on every side | H |
Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes | G |
And thus the dreamer with himself communes | G |
Yes Earth shall witness 'ere my star be set | I |
That partial nature mark'd me for her pet | I |
That Phoebus doom'd me kind indulgent sire | J |
To mount his car and set the world on fire | J |
Fame's steep ascent by easy flights to win | K |
With a neat pocket volume I'll begin | K |
And dirge and sonnet ode and epigram | L |
Shall show mankind how versatile I am | L |
The buskin'd Muse shall next my pen descry | J |
The boxes from their inmost rows shall sigh | M |
The pit shall weep the galleries deplore | J |
Such moving woes as ne'er were heard before | J |
Enough I'll leave them in their soft hysterics | G |
Mount in a brighter blaze and dazzle with Homerics | G |
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Then while my name runs ringing through Reviews | G |
And maids wives widows smitten with my Muse | G |
Assail me with Platonic billet doux | G |
From this suburban attic I'll dismount | I |
With Coutts or Barclays open an account | I |
Ranged in my mirror cards with burnish'd ends | G |
Shall show the whole nobility my friends | G |
That happy host with whom I choose to dine | N |
Shall make set parties give his choicest wine | N |
And age and infancy shall gape to see | G |
The lucky bard and whisper That is he | G |
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Poor youth he print and wakes to sleep no more | J |
The world goes on indifferent as before | J |
And the first notice of his metric skill | O |
Comes in the likeness of his printer's bill | O |
To pen soft notes no fair enthusiast stirs | G |
Except his laundress and who values her's | G |
None but herself for though the bard may burn | P |
Her note she still expects one in return | P |
The luckless maiden all unblest shall sigh | M |
His pocket tome hath drawn his pockets dry | M |
His tragedy expires in peals of laughter | J |
And that soul thrilling wish to live hereafter | J |
Gives way to one as hopeless quite I fear | J |
And far more needful how to live while here | J |
Where are ye now divine illusions all | Q |
Cheques dinners wines admirers great and small | Q |
Changed to two followers terrible to see | G |
Who dog his walks and whisper That is he | G |
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Rhymesters attend nor scorn friendly hint | I |
Restrain your cacoeths fierce to print | I |
But hark my printer's devil's at the door | J |
My leisure cannot yield one moment more | J |
Nor matters it advice can ne'er restrain | F |
Madman or poet from his bent 'tis vain | F |
To strive to point out colours to the blind | I |
Or set men seeking what they will not find | I |
Thomas Gent
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