Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Xvi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJEE KKLLJJMMNNNNOOPPEEHH GQRRSS| A | |
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| Thou whose soft and rosy hues | B |
| Mimic form and soul infuse | B |
| Best of painters come portray | C |
| The lovely maid that's far away | C |
| Far away my soul thou art | D |
| But I've thy beauties all by heart | D |
| Paint her jetty ringlets playing | E |
| Silky locks like tendrils straying | E |
| And if painting hath the skill | F |
| To make the spicy balm distil | F |
| Let every little lock exhale | G |
| A sigh of perfume on the gale | G |
| Where her tresses' curly flow | H |
| Darkles o'er the brow of snow | H |
| Let her forehead beam to light | I |
| Burnished as the ivory bright | I |
| Let her eyebrows smoothly rise | J |
| In jetty arches o'er her eyes | J |
| Each a crescent gently gliding | E |
| Just commingling just dividing | E |
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| But hast thou any sparkles warm | K |
| The lightning of her eyes to form | K |
| Let them effuse the azure rays | L |
| That in Minerva's glances blaze | L |
| Mixt with the liquid light that lies | J |
| In Cytherea's languid eyes | J |
| O'er her nose and cheek be shed | M |
| Flushing white and softened red | M |
| Mingling tints as when there glows | N |
| In snowy milk the bashful rose | N |
| Then her lip so rich in blisses | N |
| Sweet petitioner for kisses | N |
| Rosy nest where lurks Persuasion | O |
| Mutely courting Love's invasion | O |
| Next beneath the velvet chin | P |
| Whose dimple hides a Love within | P |
| Mould her neck with grace descending | E |
| In a heaven of beauty ending | E |
| While countless charms above below | H |
| Sport and flutter round its snow | H |
| Now let a floating lucid veil | G |
| Shadow her form but not conceal | Q |
| A charm may peep a hue may beam | R |
| And leave the rest to Fancy's dream | R |
| Enough 'tis she 'tis all I seek | S |
| It glows it lives it soon will speak | S |
Thomas Moore
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