There Are Sounds Of Mirth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD AHAHAIAI| There are sounds of mirth in the night air ringing | A |
| And lamps from every casement shown | B |
| While voices blithe within are singing | A |
| That seem to say Come in every tone | B |
| Ah once how light in Life's young season | C |
| My heart had leap'd at that sweet lay | D |
| Nor paused to ask of greybeard Reason | C |
| Should I the syren call obey | D |
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| And see the lamps still livelier glitter | E |
| The syren lips more fondly sound | F |
| No seek ye nymphs some victim fitter | E |
| To sink in your rosy bondage bound | F |
| Shall a bard whom not the world in arms | G |
| Could bend to tyranny's rude countroul | D |
| Thus quail at sight of woman's charms | G |
| And yield to a smile his freeborn soul | D |
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| Thus sung the sage while slyly stealing | A |
| The nymphs their fetters around him cast | H |
| And their laughing eyes the while concealing | A |
| Led Freedom's Bard their slave at last | H |
| For the Poet's heart still prone to loving | A |
| Was like that rock of the Druid race | I |
| Which the gentlest touch at once set moving | A |
| But all earth's power couldn't cast from its base | I |
Thomas Moore
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