On Seeing Mademoiselle *** Dance At The Opera In Paris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHBH IJBJ JJBJ JKLK JJBJ JMGM| What fine aerial Shape | A |
| In orient colours dight | B |
| Springs from the world unknown | C |
| Upon my wondering sight | B |
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| Loosely through various space | D |
| The lovely Figure flows | E |
| And leaves the sleeping air | F |
| Unconscious as it goes | E |
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| Hark a spontaneous strain | G |
| Its fairy gait attends | H |
| In concord every sound | B |
| With every movement blends | H |
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| Lo now the passive Form | I |
| Moves as the music leads | J |
| Each motion from each note | B |
| Harmoniously proceeds | J |
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| By the same sense methinks | J |
| At once I hear and see | J |
| And ears and eyes and mind | B |
| Are all one harmony | J |
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| Along my shivering nerves | J |
| The mingled raptures thrill | K |
| And strangely take my soul | L |
| And rule it as they will | K |
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| True to the magic force | J |
| That shifts a thousand ways | J |
| An echo and a shade | B |
| It answers and obeys | J |
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| But ah the charm expires | J |
| Did Fancy thus deceive | M |
| She smiles and fondly vain | G |
| Would have me so believe | M |
Thomas Oldham
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