Muse's Triumph, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDAA EEAAFFGGHIJ KKAAJJLLMMNN DDAAOOAAMMKA PQRR| What adverse passions rule my changeful breast | A |
| With hope exalted or by fear deprest | A |
| Now by the Muse inspired I snatch the lyre | B |
| And proudly to poetic fame aspire | B |
| Now dies the sacred flame my pride declines | C |
| And diffidence the immortal wreath resigns | C |
| Friends void of taste warm advocates for trade | A |
| With shafts of ridicule my peace invade | A |
| 'A Poet ' thus they sneeringly exclaim | D |
| 'Well may you court that glorious envied name | D |
| For sure no common joys his lot attend | A |
| None but himself those joys can comprehend | A |
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| O superhuman bliss employ sublime | E |
| To scribble fiction and to jingle rhyme | E |
| Caged in some muse behaunted Grub street garret | A |
| To prate his feeders' promptings like a parrot | A |
| And what though want and scorn his life assail | F |
| What though he rave in Bedlam starve in jail | F |
| Such trifling ills the Bard may well despise | G |
| Sure of immortal honour when he dies | G |
| But seriously the advice of friendship hear | H |
| Stop short in your poetical career | I |
| O quell the frenzies of your fever'd brain | J |
| And turn at Wisdom's call to trade and gain ' | - |
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| Absorb'd in passive sadness I comply | K |
| Turn from the Muse my disenchanted eye | K |
| And deign to study as my friends persuade | A |
| The little money getting arts of trade | A |
| But soon the Goddess fired with high disdain | J |
| To see me woo the yellow strumpet Gain | J |
| Resuming all her beauty all her power | L |
| Returns to triumph in the vacant hour | L |
| Weakly reluctant on her charms I gaze | M |
| Trembling I feel her fascinating lays | M |
| Roused from ignoble dreams my wondering soul | N |
| Springs to the well known bliss regardless of control | N |
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| Say then ye blind profane who dare to blame | D |
| The heaven born Poet and his thirst of fame | D |
| Ye slaves of Mammon whose low minds behold | A |
| No fair no great no good in aught but gold | A |
| Say will the Captive of tyrannic sway | O |
| Restored to genial air and boundless day | O |
| Turn to his dungeon's suffocating night | A |
| Will the proud Eagle who with daring flight | A |
| Sublimely soars against the solar blaze | M |
| And eyes the inspiring God with raptured gaze | M |
| Stoop from his native kingdom in the sky | K |
| To share the breathings of mortality | A |
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| How then can he whose breast the Muse inspires | P |
| Restrain his soul or quench those hallow'd fires | Q |
| How can he quit the world of mental bliss | R |
| For all the riches miseries of this | R |
Thomas Oldham
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