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 trace | A |
| The soul's reflection in the face | A |
| In vain we dwell on lines and crosses | B |
| Crooked mouth or short proboscis | C |
| Boobies have looked as wise and bright | D |
| As Plato or the Stagirite | D |
| And many a sage and learned skull | E |
| Has peeped through windows dark and dull | E |
| Since then though art do all it can | F |
| We ne'er can reach the inward man | F |
| Nor howsoe'er learned Thebans doubt | D |
| The inward woman from without | D |
| Methinks 'twere well if nature could | D |
| And Nature could if Nature would | D |
| Some pithy short descriptions write | D |
| On tablets large in black and white | D |
| Which she might hang about our throttles | G |
| Like labels upon physic bottles | G |
| And where all men might read but stay | D |
| As dialectic sages say | D |
| The argument most apt and ample | E |
| For common use is the example | E |
| For instance then if Nature's care | H |
| Had not portrayed in lines so fair | H |
| The inward soul of Lucy Lindon | I |
| This is the label she'd have pinned on | J |
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| LABEL FIRST | D |
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| Within this form there lies enshrined | D |
| The purest brightest gem of mind | D |
| Though Feeling's hand may sometimes throw | K |
| Upon its charms the shade of woe | K |
| The lustre of the gem when veiled | D |
| Shall be but mellowed not concealed | D |
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| Now sirs imagine if you're able | E |
| That Nature wrote a second label | E |
| They're her own words at least suppose so | K |
| And boldly pin it on Pomposo | K |
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| LABEL SECOND | D |
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| When I composed the fustian brain | L |
| Of this redoubted Captain Vain | L |
| I had at hand but few ingredients | K |
| And so was forced to use expedients | K |
| I put therein some small discerning | M |
| A grain of sense a grain of learning | M |
| And when I saw the void behind | D |
| I filled it up with froth and wind | D |
Thomas Moore
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