Common Sense And Genius. (french Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDE FAGAHIHIE JKJKLMLNE OPOPQKQKE| While I touch the string | A |
| Wreathe my brows with laurel | B |
| For the tale I sing | A |
| Has for once a moral | B |
| Common Sense one night | C |
| Tho' not used to gambols | D |
| Went out by moonlight | C |
| With Genius on his rambles | D |
| While I touch the string etc | E |
| - | |
| Common Sense went on | F |
| Many wise things saying | A |
| While the light that shone | G |
| Soon set Genius straying | A |
| One his eye ne'er raised | H |
| From the path before him | I |
| T'other idly gazed | H |
| On each night cloud o'er him | I |
| While I touch the string etc | E |
| - | |
| So they came at last | J |
| To a shady river | K |
| Common Sense soon past | J |
| Safe as he doth ever | K |
| While the boy whose look | L |
| Was in Heaven that minute | M |
| Never saw the brook | L |
| But tumbled headlong in it | N |
| While I touch the string etc | E |
| - | |
| How the Wise One smiled | O |
| When safe o'er the torrent | P |
| At that youth so wild | O |
| Dripping from the current | P |
| Sense went home to bed | Q |
| Genius left to shiver | K |
| On the bank 'tis said | Q |
| Died of that cold river | K |
| While I touch the string etc | E |
Thomas Moore
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