Aspasia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG HHIIJJKK LLMMNN| 'Twas in the fair Aspasia's bower | A |
| That Love and Learning many an hour | A |
| In dalliance met and Learning smiled | B |
| With pleasure on the playful child | B |
| Who often stole to find a nest | C |
| Within the folds of Learning's vest | C |
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| There as the listening statesman hung | D |
| In transport on Aspasia's tongue | D |
| The destinies of Athens took | E |
| Their color from Aspasia's look | E |
| Oh happy time when laws of state | F |
| When all that ruled the country's fate | F |
| Its glory quiet or alarms | G |
| Was planned between two snow white arms | G |
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| Blest times they could not always last | H |
| And yet even now they are not past | H |
| Though we have lost the giant mould | I |
| In which their men were cast of old | I |
| Woman dear woman still the same | J |
| While beauty breathes through soul or frame | J |
| While man possesses heart or eyes | K |
| Woman's bright empire never dies | K |
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| No Fanny love they ne'er shall say | L |
| That beauty's charm hath past away | L |
| Give but the universe a soul | M |
| Attuned to woman's soft control | M |
| And Fanny hath the charm the skill | N |
| To wield a universe at will | N |
Thomas Moore
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