Ode, To Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDABEEFFGGHIHI JJKLLKBBMMNNOPQORRST SKUVVWRRRRBB| Thou Cherub fair in whose blue sparkling eye | A |
| New joys anticipated ever play | B |
| Celestial Hope with whose all potent sway | B |
| The moral elements of life comply | A |
| At thy melodious voice their jarrings cease | C |
| And settle into order beauty peace | C |
| How dear to memory that thrice hallow'd hour | D |
| Which gave Thee to the world auspicious Power | D |
| Sent by thy parent Mercy from the sky | A |
| Invested with her own all cheering ray | B |
| To dissipate the thick black cloud of fate | E |
| Which long had shrouded this terrestrial state | E |
| What time fair Virtue struggling with despair | F |
| Pour'd forth to pitying heaven her saddest soul in prayer | F |
| Then then she saw the brightening gloom divide | G |
| And Thee sweet Comforter adown thy rainbow glide | G |
| From the veil'd awful future to her view | H |
| Scenes of immortal bliss thou didst disclose | I |
| With faith's rapt eye she hail'd the vision true | H |
| Spurn'd the base earth and smiled upon her woes | I |
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| Thou Sovereign of the human soul | J |
| Whose influence rules without controul | J |
| Unlike thy gloomy rival Fear | K |
| Abhorr'd usurping Demon who constrains | L |
| The shuddering spirit in his icy chains | L |
| O Hope be thou for ever near | K |
| Keep the dread tyrant far away | B |
| And all my willing grateful bosom sway | B |
| Each coming hour that smiles with promise sweet | M |
| In thy bright spotless mirror let me greet | M |
| And fondly passive to thy dictates deem | N |
| Those smiling hours all heavenly as they seem | N |
| Should changeful Fortune hostile in her mood | O |
| With storms and thunder arm her meteor car | P |
| And 'gainst me summon all her host to war | Q |
| Rouse thou kind Power the champion Fortitude | O |
| With his well tempered shield | R |
| To brave the threatening field | R |
| Amid that scene of woes and mental strife | S |
| Let thy sweet distant whisper soothe my ear | T |
| Inviting Fancy far from mortal life | S |
| To wander blest her own created sphere | K |
| Do thou her glowing thought possess | U |
| And let her fairy pencil draw | V |
| Free and unconscious of thy law | V |
| Fair images of Happiness | W |
| Of that celestial form which lives imprest | R |
| Indelible eternal in thy breast | R |
| E'en in the dead calm of the mind | R |
| When Fancy sleeps thou yet be kind | R |
| O Hope still let thy golden pinions play | B |
| The unbreathing void to cheer and shed a glancing ray | B |
Thomas Oldham
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