Nature's Labels. A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFDDDDDDGGDD EEHHIJ D DDKKDD EEKK D LLKKMMDD

In vain we fondly strive to traceA
The soul's reflection in the faceA
In vain we dwell on lines and crossesB
Crooked mouth or short proboscisC
Boobies have looked as wise and brightD
As Plato or the StagiriteD
And many a sage and learned skullE
Has peeped through windows dark and dullE
Since then though art do all it canF
We ne'er can reach the inward manF
Nor howsoe'er learned Thebans doubtD
The inward woman from withoutD
Methinks 'twere well if nature couldD
And Nature could if Nature wouldD
Some pithy short descriptions writeD
On tablets large in black and whiteD
Which she might hang about our throttlesG
Like labels upon physic bottlesG
And where all men might read but stayD
As dialectic sages sayD
The argument most apt and ampleE
For common use is the exampleE
For instance then if Nature's careH
Had not portrayed in lines so fairH
The inward soul of Lucy LindonI
This is the label she'd have pinned onJ
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LABEL FIRSTD
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Within this form there lies enshrinedD
The purest brightest gem of mindD
Though Feeling's hand may sometimes throwK
Upon its charms the shade of woeK
The lustre of the gem when veiledD
Shall be but mellowed not concealedD
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Now sirs imagine if you're ableE
That Nature wrote a second labelE
They're her own words at least suppose soK
And boldly pin it on PomposoK
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LABEL SECONDD
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When I composed the fustian brainL
Of this redoubted Captain VainL
I had at hand but few ingredientsK
And so was forced to use expedientsK
I put therein some small discerningM
A grain of sense a grain of learningM
And when I saw the void behindD
I filled it up with froth and windD

Thomas Moore



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