On Hearing The Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMND OPQRSTUVWXYZA2 B2AC2D2E2DF2G2MF2WF2 H2F MH2HI2F2H2DF2J2F2K2D F2MF2H2I2K2AF2L2| Thanks for thy song sweet Bird thanks for thy song | A |
| O 'twas delightful how have I been lost | B |
| As in a blissful dream how has my soul | C |
| Been wafted in a sea of melody | D |
| Scarce yet am I awake yet scarce myself | E |
| Still with the enchanting music's dying breath | F |
| The air is kept in motion and conveys | G |
| Sweet whispers to the finely listening ear | H |
| Or is it but an echo from the cell | I |
| Of memory that deludes my doating sense | J |
| Ah now 'tis gone Silence resumes her sway | K |
| And o'er my hearing spreads her subtile web | L |
| But she resumes it changed methinks in nature | M |
| More soft more amiable as if inform'd | N |
| With the departed soul of harmony | D |
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| Thanks for thy song sweet Bird it well deserves | O |
| All my heart's gratitude for it has still'd | P |
| Its anxious throbbings and removed the load | Q |
| Of sadness that oppress'd the springs of life | R |
| More lightly now it beats and welcomes back | S |
| The glowing tide of health and conscious feels | T |
| The blessing of existence It imparts | U |
| To all my frame reanimating force | V |
| My nerves partake of its elastic spring | W |
| No longer falsely sentient they receive | X |
| The just impression from external things | Y |
| Vibrate harmoniously to Nature's touch | Z |
| And in her general concert bear a part | A2 |
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| Thanks sweetest Bird enchanting Nightingale | B2 |
| How by the magic influence of thy song | A |
| How am I changed from what of late I was | C2 |
| And every object too how seems it changed | D2 |
| This wood when first I enter'd it appear'd | E2 |
| To Fancy's eye the haunt of Melancholy | D |
| Her dreariest haunt where in her saddest mood | F2 |
| The Goddess loved to dwell 'twas lonesome gloom | G2 |
| And awful stillness all I felt her power | M |
| The imaginative Spirit she o'erwhelm'd | F2 |
| With a mysterious load of shapeless feeling | W |
| Her leaden hand oppress'd my labouring heart | F2 |
| Upon the ground I sank scarce sensible | H2 |
| And buried as it were in conscious death | F |
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| With what soft influence what resistless power | M |
| Did thy mellifluous strain kind Philomel | H2 |
| Insinuate itself into my ear | H |
| Melting its dull unwillingness to listen | I2 |
| And opening soon a passage to my heart | F2 |
| But thou beginn'st again be hush'd my soul | H2 |
| O wondrous power of heavenly harmony | D |
| See Philomel the Goddess of the night | F2 |
| Charm'd with thy strains her cloudy veil withdraws | J2 |
| And pays thee with a smile of gratitude | F2 |
| A smile that to her beauty adds new charms | K2 |
| Enchanting heaven and earth while Melancholy | D |
| Sighing away her sadness lifts her head | F2 |
| And gazing on her tutelary Power | M |
| With eyes reflecting soft her dewy light | F2 |
| Feels her divinest inspiration steal | H2 |
| Into her melting soul absorb'd in heaven | I2 |
| My sympathizing heart with bliss o'erflows | K2 |
| Thanks sweetest Nightingale thanks for thy song | A |
| Long on this night shall grateful memory doat | F2 |
| And oft to this loved wood will I return | L2 |
Thomas Oldham
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