The Progress Of Poesy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEFF GHHGFIJJKKLL MMEEMNNKOKOPMPMQR SEESQQTTLLIF UVWUXXOOYYZZ A2A2YYA2B2B2EC2EC2D2 YD2YE2F2 G2XXG2H2H2I2I2J2J2YY K2YLK2YYL2L2IPYY FD2EEFM2M2EPEPEMEMSSAwake olian lyre awake | A |
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings | B |
From Helicon's harmonious springs | B |
A thousand rills their mazy progress take | A |
The laughing flowers that round them blow | C |
Drink life and fragrance as they flow | C |
Now the rich stream of Music winds along | D |
Deep majestic smooth and strong | D |
Thro' verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign | E |
Now rolling down the steep amain | E |
Headlong impetuous see it pour | F |
The rocks and nodding groves re bellow to the roar | F |
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Oh Sov'reign of the willing soul | G |
Parent of sweet and solemn breathing airs | H |
Enchanting shell the sullen Cares | H |
And frantic Passions hear thy soft control | G |
On Thracia's hills the Lord of War | F |
Has curbed the fury of his car | I |
And dropt his thirsty lance at thy command | J |
Perching on the sceptred hand | J |
Of Jove thy magic lulls the feathered king | K |
With ruffled plumes and flagging wing | K |
Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie | L |
The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye | L |
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Thee the voice the dance obey | M |
Tempered to thy warbled lay | M |
O'er Idalia's velvet green | E |
The rosy crowned Loves are seen | E |
On Cytherea's day | M |
With antic Sport and blue eyed Pleasures | N |
Frisking light in frolic measures | N |
Now pursuing now retreating | K |
Now in circling troops they meet | O |
To brisk notes in cadence beating | K |
Glance their many twinkling feet | O |
Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare | P |
Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay | M |
With arms sublime that float upon the air | P |
In gliding state she wins her easy way | M |
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move | Q |
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love | R |
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Man's feeble race what ills await | S |
Labour and Penury the racks of Pain | E |
Disease and Sorrow's weeping train | E |
And Death sad refuge from the storms of Fate | S |
The fond complaint my song disprove | Q |
And justify the laws of Jove | Q |
Say has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Muse | T |
Night and all her sickly dews | T |
Her sceptres wan and birds of boding cry | L |
He gives to range the dreary sky | L |
Till down the eastern cliffs afar | I |
Hyperion's march they spy and glitt'ring shafts of war | F |
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In climes beyond the solar road | U |
Where shaggy forms o'er ice built mountains roam | V |
The Muse has broke the twilight gloom | W |
To cheer the shivering Native's dull abode | U |
And oft beneath the od'rous shade | X |
Of Chili's boundless forests laid | X |
She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat | O |
In loose numbers wildly sweet | O |
Their feather cinctured chiefs and dusky loves | Y |
Her track where'er the Goddess roves | Y |
Glory pursue and gen'rous Shame | Z |
Th' unconquerable Mind and Freedom's holy flame | Z |
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Woods that wave o'er Delphi's steep | A2 |
Isles that crown th' gean deep | A2 |
Fields that cool Ilissus laves | Y |
Or where M ander's amber waves | Y |
In lingering lab'rinths creep | A2 |
How do your tuneful echoes languish | B2 |
Mute but to the voice of anguish | B2 |
Where each old poetic mountain | E |
Inspiration breathed around | C2 |
Ev'ry shade and hallowed fountain | E |
Murmured deep a solemn sound | C2 |
Till the sad Nine in Greece's evil hour | D2 |
Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains | Y |
Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power | D2 |
And coward Vice that revels in her chains | Y |
When Latium had her lofty spirit lost | E2 |
They sought Oh Albion next thy sea encircled coast | F2 |
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Far from the sun and summer gale | G2 |
In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid | X |
What time where lucid Avon strayed | X |
To him the mighty mother did unveil | G2 |
Her awful face the dauntless child | H2 |
Stretched forth his little arms and smiled | H2 |
This pencil take she said whose colours clear | I2 |
Richly paint the vernal year | I2 |
Thine too these golden keys immortal Boy | J2 |
This can unlock the gates of Joy | J2 |
Of Horror that and thrilling Fears | Y |
Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears | Y |
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Nor second he that rode sublime | K2 |
Upon the seraph wings of Ecstasy | Y |
The secrets of th' Abyss to spy | L |
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time | K2 |
The living Throne the sapphire blaze | Y |
Where Angels tremble while they gaze | Y |
He saw but blasted with excess of light | L2 |
Closed his eyes in endless night | L2 |
Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car | I |
Wide o'er the fields of glory bear | P |
Two coursers of ethereal race | Y |
With necks in thunder clothed and long resounding pace | Y |
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Hark his hands the lyre explore | F |
Bright eyed Fancy hovering o'er | D2 |
Scatters from her pictured urn | E |
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn | E |
But ah 'tis heard no more | F |
Oh Lyre divine what daring Spirit | M2 |
Wakes thee now Though he inherit | M2 |
Nor the pride nor ample pinion | E |
That the Theban eagle bear | P |
Sailing with supreme dominion | E |
Through the azure deep of air | P |
Yet oft before his infant eyes would run | E |
Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray | M |
With orient hues unborrowed of the Sun | E |
Yet shall he mount and keep his distant way | M |
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate | S |
Beneath the Good how far but far above the Great | S |
Thomas Gray
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