To The Invisible Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHCCII JKLLMMNNOOPP JKCCQQDDRRSSAAJJNNTT UUVWXXCC YYZZ| They try to persuade me my dear little sprite | A |
| That you're not a true daughter of ether and light | A |
| Nor have any concern with those fanciful forms | B |
| That dance upon rainbows and ride upon storms | B |
| That in short you're a woman your lip and your eye | C |
| As mortal as ever drew gods from the sky | C |
| But I will not believe them no Science to you | D |
| I have long bid a last and a careless adieu | D |
| Still flying from Nature to study her laws | E |
| And dulling delight by exploring its cause | F |
| You forget how superior for mortals below | G |
| Is the fiction they dream to the truth that they know | G |
| Oh who that has e'er enjoyed rapture complete | H |
| Would ask how we feel it or why it is sweet | H |
| How rays are confused or how particles fly | C |
| Through the medium refined of a glance or a sigh | C |
| Is there one who but once would not rather have known it | I |
| Than written with Harvey whole volumes upon it | I |
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| As for you my sweet voiced and invisible love | J |
| You must surely be one of those spirits that rove | K |
| By the bank where at twilight the poet reclines | L |
| When the star of the west on his solitude shines | L |
| And the magical fingers of fancy have hung | M |
| Every breeze with a sigh every leaf with a tongue | M |
| Oh hint to him then 'tis retirement alone | N |
| Can hallow his harp or ennoble its tone | N |
| Like you with a veil of seclusion between | O |
| His song to the world let him utter unseen | O |
| And like you a legitimate child of the spheres | P |
| Escape from the eye to enrapture the ears | P |
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| Sweet spirit of mystery how I should love | J |
| In the wearisome ways I am fated to rove | K |
| To have you thus ever invisibly nigh | C |
| Inhaling for ever your song and your sigh | C |
| Mid the crowds of the world and the murmurs of care | Q |
| I might sometimes converse with my nymph of the air | Q |
| And turn with distaste from the clamorous crew | D |
| To steal in the pauses one whisper from you | D |
| Then come and be near me for ever be mine | R |
| We shall hold in the air a communion divine | R |
| As sweet as of old was imagined to dwell | S |
| In the grotto of Numa or Socrates' cell | S |
| And oft at those lingering moments of night | A |
| When the heart's busy thoughts have put slumber to flight | A |
| You shall come to my pillow and tell me of love | J |
| Such as angel to angel might whisper above | J |
| Sweet spirit and then could you borrow the tone | N |
| Of that voice to my ear like some fairy song known | N |
| The voice of the one upon earth who has twined | T |
| With her being for ever my heart and my mind | T |
| Though lonely and far from the light of her smile | U |
| An exile and weary and hopeless the while | U |
| Could you shed for a moment her voice on my ear | V |
| I will think for that moment that Cara is near | W |
| That she comes with consoling enchantment to speak | X |
| And kisses my eyelid and breathes on my cheek | X |
| And tells me the night shall go rapidly by | C |
| For the dawn of our hope of our heaven is nigh | C |
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| Fair spirit if such be your magical power | Y |
| It will lighten the lapse of full many an hour | Y |
| And let fortune's realities frown as they will | Z |
| Hope fancy and Cara may smile for me still | Z |
Thomas Moore
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