Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Lxvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFCCC GGHHIIJJKKLLMM NNOOPPDD| A | |
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| To thee the Queen of nymphs divine | B |
| Fairest of all that fairest shine | B |
| To thee who rulest with darts of fire | C |
| This world of mortals young Desire | C |
| And oh thou nuptial Power to thee | D |
| Who bearest of life the guardian key | D |
| Breathing my soul in fervent praise | E |
| And weaving wild my votive lays | E |
| For thee O Queen I wake the lyre | F |
| For thee thou blushing young Desire | C |
| And oh for thee thou nuptial Power | C |
| Come and illume this genial hour | C |
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| Look on thy bride too happy boy | G |
| And while thy lambent glance of joy | G |
| Plays over all her blushing charms | H |
| Delay not snatch her to thine arms | H |
| Before the lovely trembling prey | I |
| Like a young birdling wing away | I |
| Turn Stratocles too happy youth | J |
| Dear to the Queen of amorous truth | J |
| And dear to her whose yielding zone | K |
| Will soon resign her all thine own | K |
| Turn to Myrilla turn thine eye | L |
| Breathe to Myrilla breathe thy sigh | L |
| To those bewitching beauties turn | M |
| For thee they blush for thee they burn | M |
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| Not more the rose the queen of flowers | N |
| Outblushes all the bloom of bowers | N |
| Than she unrivalled grace discloses | O |
| The sweetest rose where all are roses | O |
| Oh may the sun benignant shed | P |
| His blandest influence o'er thy bed | P |
| And foster there an infant tree | D |
| To bloom like her and tower like thee | D |
Thomas Moore
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