To Delille Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEAAFFGGHHII JKLLMMFFEE BBNNOOPP QQCC| Amid the jingle of the rhyming throng | A |
| I mark with transport some diviner song | A |
| Sweet to their native heaven the strains aspire | B |
| Commanding silence to the vulgar quire | B |
| Apollo smiles and all the tongues of Fame | C |
| Through the poetic realm Delille proclaim | C |
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| O let a British Bard admiring greet | D |
| Thy glorious triumph and thy praise repeat | D |
| When merit claims the panegyric lay | E |
| Envy he scorns and joys the debt to pay | E |
| Painter of Nature hail to thee belong | A |
| Unrivall'd talents for descriptive song | A |
| While others fired with more ambitious views | F |
| Invoke the Epic or the Tragic Muse | F |
| And throned in Glory's temple shine sublime | G |
| Proud of their laurel wreaths that fear not Time | G |
| Thy Genius fondly stoops to softer themes | H |
| The landscape's beauties flowers and groves and streams | H |
| And round his brows in modest triumph wears | I |
| A simple garden wreath but ever green as theirs | I |
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| What though some critics in their taste severe | J |
| Turn from thy subject a disdainful ear | K |
| Demanding still their duller minds to strike | L |
| War passion plot surprises and the like | L |
| Yet will true Taste that ranges unconfined | M |
| And feels the charms of every various kind | M |
| Oft quit Voltaire or Corneille to peruse | F |
| Delille the milder beauties of thy Muse | F |
| Oft love with thee through rural scenes to stray | E |
| And sweetly study Nature in thy lay | E |
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| But ah what boldness does thy breast inspire | B |
| Say wilt thou dare to touch the Mantuan lyre | B |
| Long has thy country wish'd that classic spoil | N |
| Yet of her tongue distrustful shunn'd the toil | N |
| O cease then but thy hand essays the strings | O |
| Amazement Fancy cries 'tis Virgil sings | O |
| The same thy numbers so correctly free | P |
| So full of sweetness full of majesty | P |
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| Now France exult nor view with envy more | Q |
| Surrounding nations rich in Roman lore | Q |
| Delille has sung then glory in his name | C |
| Engraved immortal on the rolls of Fame | C |
Thomas Oldham
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