To Eliza, Written In Her Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FGFH IJIJ KLKL MCMC IIIII dare not spoil this spotless page | A |
With any feeble verse of mine | B |
The Poet's fire has lost its rage | A |
Around his lyre no myrtles twine | B |
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The voice of fame cannot recal | C |
Those fairy days of past delight | D |
When pleasure seem'd to welcome all | C |
And morning hail'd a welcome night | D |
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E'en love has lost its soothing power | E |
Its spells no more can chain my soul | C |
I must not venture in the bower | E |
Where Wit and Verse and Wine controul | C |
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And yet I fear in thoughtless mirth | F |
I once did say Eliza dear | G |
That I would tell the world thy worth | F |
And write the living record here | H |
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Come Love and Truth and Friendship come | I |
Enwreath'd in Virtue's snowy arms | J |
With magic rhymes the page illume | I |
And fancy sketch her varied charms | J |
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Which o'er the cares of home has thrown | K |
A thousand blessings deep engraved | L |
For every heart she makes her own | K |
And every friend is free enslaved | L |
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No Inspiration o'er my pen | M |
Glows with the lightning's vivid spell | C |
My soul is sad forgive me then | M |
My heart's too full the tale to tell | C |
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Yet if the humblest poet's theme | I |
Be welcome in Eliza's name | I |
Then angel give the cheering gleam | I |
For thy approving smile is fame | I |
Thomas Gent
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