To Paganini Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDD EEFFDDCCBBAAGGHHFF IIJJKKLLMMEE| Long to the world have all the mouths of Fame | A |
| O Paganini thunder'd forth thy name | A |
| Nations have vied their plausive voice to raise | B |
| And swell the general chorus of thy praise | B |
| Though not so loud more dear the applause to thee | C |
| Of all the favour'd sons of harmony | C |
| Who with one full consent admiring own | D |
| Thee as their master monarch thee alone | D |
| And humbly bow before thee on thy throne | D |
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| O'er all musicians thou stand'st far apart | E |
| Thou hast created for thyself an art | E |
| As in the natural world around the sun | F |
| The planets their career of brightness run | F |
| Each moving in an orbit of its own | D |
| And all obeying laws to science known | D |
| Musicians thus each blest with his degree | C |
| Of talent by the God of harmony | C |
| Shine forth distinguish'd in their several ways | B |
| While every one the rules of art obeys | B |
| We calculate the merits of their name | A |
| And pay them their proportion'd share of fame | A |
| Not thus in Honour's region thou career'st | G |
| Thou comet like to fancy's ken appear'st | G |
| Like comet blazing in its bold career | H |
| That leaves behind the planetary sphere | H |
| And rushes towards the centre of the sun | F |
| Till with Apollo's self it seems but one | F |
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| A Genius an Original art thou | I |
| Such as the astounded world ne'er heard till now | I |
| When thou dost take thy magic bow in hand | J |
| What mortal ear the enchantment can withstand | J |
| Transported we admire thy peerless skill | K |
| Thou movest our feelings passions at thy will | K |
| With fear we tremble we with anger glow | L |
| Soft from our eyes the tears of pity flow | L |
| Or when thou play'st a gay fantastic strain | M |
| From mirth and laughter who can then refrain | M |
| Such is thy music's power to rule the heart | E |
| Thou may'st be call'd the Shakspeare of thine art | E |
Thomas Oldham
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