To The Marchioness Dowager Of Donegall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHH EEIIJJEEKLMMNN OOPPQQRRSSTT BBUUVVWW XXYYZZA2A2B2B2HH C2C2WWD2E2OOMMF2F2G2 G2H2H2 I2I2J2J2GGK2L2M2M2GG N2N2XXH2H2O2O2P2P2FROM BERMUDA JANUARY | A |
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Lady where'er you roam whatever land | B |
Woos the bright touches of that artist hand | B |
Whether you sketch the valley's golden meads | C |
Where mazy Linth his lingering current leads | C |
Enamored catch the mellow hues that sleep | D |
At eve on Meillerie's immortal steep | D |
Or musing o'er the Lake at day's decline | E |
Mark the last shadow on that holy shrine | E |
Where many a night the shade of Tell complains | F |
Of Gallia's triumph and Helvetia's chains | F |
Oh lay the pencil for a moment by | G |
Turn from the canvas that creative eye | G |
And let its splendor like the morning ray | H |
Upon a shepherd's harp illume my lay | H |
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Yet Lady no for song so rude as mine | E |
Chase not the wonders of your art divine | E |
Still radiant eye upon the canvas dwell | I |
Still magic finger weave your potent spell | I |
And while I sing the animated smiles | J |
Of fairy nature in these sun born isles | J |
Oh might the song awake some bright design | E |
Inspire a touch or prompt one happy line | E |
Proud were my soul to see its humble thought | K |
On painting's mirror so divinely caught | L |
While wondering Genius as he leaned to trace | M |
The faint conception kindling into grace | M |
Might love my numbers for the spark they threw | N |
And bless the lay that lent a charm to you | N |
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Say have you ne'er in nightly vision strayed | O |
To those pure isles of ever blooming shade | O |
Which bards of old with kindly fancy placed | P |
For happy spirits in the Atlantic waste | P |
There listening while from earth each breeze that came | Q |
Brought echoes of their own undying fame | Q |
In eloquence of eye and dreams of song | R |
They charmed their lapse of nightless hours along | R |
Nor yet in song that mortal ear might suit | S |
For every spirit was itself a lute | S |
Where Virtue wakened with elysian breeze | T |
Pure tones of thought and mental harmonies | T |
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Believe me Lady when the zephyrs bland | B |
Floated our bark to this enchanted land | B |
These leafy isles upon the ocean thrown | U |
Like studs of emerald o'er a silver zone | U |
Not all the charm that ethnic fancy gave | V |
To blessed arbors o'er the western wave | V |
Could wake a dream more soothing or sublime | W |
Of bowers ethereal and the Spirit's clime | W |
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Bright rose the morning every wave was still | X |
When the first perfume of a cedar hill | X |
Sweetly awaked us and with smiling charms | Y |
The fairy harbor woo'd us to its arms | Y |
Gently we stole before the whispering wind | Z |
Through plaintain shades that round like awnings twined | Z |
And kist on either side the wanton sails | A2 |
Breathing our welcome to these vernal vales | A2 |
While far reflected o'er the wave serene | B2 |
Each wooded island shed so soft a green | B2 |
That the enamored keel with whispering play | H |
Through liquid herbage seemed to steal its way | H |
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Never did weary bark more gladly glide | C2 |
Or rest its anchor in a lovelier tide | C2 |
Along the margin many a shining dome | W |
White as the palace of a Lapland gnome | W |
Brightened the wave in every myrtle grove | D2 |
Secluded bashful like a shrine of love | E2 |
Some elfin mansion sparkled through the shade | O |
And while the foliage interposing played | O |
Lending the scene an ever changing grace | M |
Fancy would love in glimpses vague to trace | M |
The flowery capital the shaft the porch | F2 |
And dream of temples till her kindling torch | F2 |
Lighted me back to all the glorious days | G2 |
Of Attic genius and I seemed to gaze | G2 |
On marble from the rich Pentelio mount | H2 |
Gracing the umbrage of some Naiad's fount | H2 |
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Then thought I too of thee most sweet of all | I2 |
The spirit race that come at poet's call | I2 |
Delicate Ariel who in brighter hours | J2 |
Lived on the perfume of these honied bowers | J2 |
In velvet buds at evening loved to lie | G |
And win with music every rose's sigh | G |
Though weak the magic of my humble strain | K2 |
To charm your spirit from its orb again | L2 |
Yet oh for her beneath whose smile I sing | M2 |
For her whose pencil if your rainbow wing | M2 |
Were dimmed or ruffled by a wintry sky | G |
Could smooth its feather and relume its dye | G |
Descend a moment from your starry sphere | N2 |
And if the lime tree grove that once was dear | N2 |
The sunny wave the bower the breezy hill | X |
The sparkling grotto can delight you still | X |
Oh cull their choicest tints their softest light | H2 |
Weave all these spells into one dream of night | H2 |
And while the lovely artist slumbering lies | O2 |
Shed the warm picture o'er her mental eyes | O2 |
Take for the task her own creative spells | P2 |
And brightly show what song but faintly tells | P2 |
Thomas Moore
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