Odes Of Anacreon - Ode Xxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEDDCCABFFDDGG DDHHIIJJAB| Once in each revolving year | A |
| Gentle bird we find thee here | B |
| When Nature wears her summer vest | C |
| Thou comest to weave thy simple nest | C |
| But when the chilling winter lowers | D |
| Again thou seekest the genial bowers | D |
| Of Memphis or the shores of Nile | E |
| Where sunny hours for ever smile | E |
| And thus thy pinion rests and roves | D |
| Alas unlike the swarm of Loves | D |
| That brood within this hapless breast | C |
| And never never change their nest | C |
| Still every year and all the year | A |
| They fix their fated dwelling here | B |
| And some their infant plumage try | F |
| And on a tender winglet fly | F |
| While in the shell impregned with fires | D |
| Still lurk a thousand more desires | D |
| Some from their tiny prisons peeping | G |
| And some in formless embryo sleeping | G |
| Thus peopled like the vernal groves | D |
| My breast resounds with warbling Loves | D |
| One urchin imps the other's feather | H |
| Then twin desires they wing together | H |
| And fast as they thus take their flight | I |
| Still other urchins spring to light | I |
| But is there then no kindly art | J |
| To chase these Cupids from my heart | J |
| Ah no I fear in sadness fear | A |
| They will for ever nestle here | B |
Thomas Moore
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