Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFFGGHHGGIIJJ KKLLJMJJGG GGGIIGGNNGG JJOOGGPPMMJJJJQQGG IIJJFFII| Tis 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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