Sing -- Sing -- Music Was Given Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDABAB EFEFGHGHABAB| Sing sing Music was given | A |
| To brighten the gay and kindle the loving | B |
| Souls here like planets in heaven | A |
| By harmony's laws alone are kept moving | B |
| Beauty may boast of her eyes and her cheeks | C |
| But Love from the lips his true archery wings | D |
| And she who but feathers the dart when she speaks | C |
| At once sends it home to the heart when she sings | D |
| Then sing sing Music was given | A |
| To brighten the gay and kindle the loving | B |
| Souls here like planets in heaven | A |
| By harmony's laws alone are kept moving | B |
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| When Love rock'd by his mother | E |
| Lay sleeping as calm as slumber could make him | F |
| Hush hush said Venus no other | E |
| Sweet voice but his own is worthy to wake him | F |
| Dreaming of music he slumber'd the while | G |
| Till faint from his lip a soft melody broke | H |
| And Venus enchanted look'd on with a smile | G |
| While Love to his own sweet singing awoke | H |
| Then sing sing Music was given | A |
| To brighten the gay and kindle the loving | B |
| Souls here like planets in heaven | A |
| By harmony's laws alone are kept moving | B |
Thomas Moore
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