Ode On The Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEED FGHGIIJKKJ LMLMDDNOOP EQEQRRRMMR SETEMMRUVR| Lo where the rosy bosomed Hours | A |
| Fair Venus' train appear | B |
| Disclose the long expecting flowers | A |
| And wake the purple year | B |
| The Attic warbler pours her throat | C |
| Responsive to the cuckoo's note | C |
| The untaught harmony of spring | D |
| While whisp'ring pleasure as they fly | E |
| Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky | E |
| Their gathered fragrance fling | D |
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| Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch | F |
| A broader browner shade | G |
| Where'er the rude and moss grown beech | H |
| O'er canopies the glade | G |
| Beside some water's rushy brink | I |
| With me the Muse shall sit and think | I |
| At ease reclined in rustic state | J |
| How vain the ardour of the Crowd | K |
| How low how little are the Proud | K |
| How indigent the Great | J |
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| Still is the toiling hand of Care | L |
| The panting herds repose | M |
| Yet hark how through the peopled air | L |
| The busy murmur glows | M |
| The insect youth are on the wing | D |
| Eager to taste the honied spring | D |
| And float amid the liquid noon | N |
| Some lightly o'er the current skim | O |
| Some show their gayly gilded trim | O |
| Quick glancing to the sun | P |
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| To Contemplation's sober eye | E |
| Such is the race of Man | Q |
| And they that creep and they that fly | E |
| Shall end where they began | Q |
| Alike the Busy and the Gay | R |
| But flutter thro' life's little day | R |
| In Fortune's varying colours drest | R |
| Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance | M |
| Or chilled by Age their airy dance | M |
| They leave in dust to rest | R |
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| Methinks I hear in accents low | S |
| The sportive kind reply | E |
| Poor moralist and what art thou | T |
| A solitary fly | E |
| Thy joys no glittering female meets | M |
| No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets | M |
| No painted plumage to display | R |
| On hasty wings thy youth is flown | U |
| Thy sun is set thy spring is gone | V |
| We frolic while 'tis May | R |
Thomas Gray
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