To Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDCCCEEFFGGHHCCIJ KKLLCCMM NNOOMMPQ RRCCSS TTUUVVBB CCWWXXAAYY| Fairest and loveliest of the sun born train | A |
| That o'er the varying year alternate reign | A |
| Whose eye soft beaming with thy father's fire | B |
| Fond Nature woos with ever fresh desire | B |
| Enchanting Spring O let thy votary's lay | C |
| Invite thy angel smile thy genial sway | C |
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| Still do thy beauties to my partial heart | D |
| Whene'er I gaze superior joys impart | D |
| When winter's cloudy veil thou draw'st away | C |
| And vested with the sun's mild dewy ray | C |
| First to the longing earth thy charms thou dost display | C |
| Or when Aurora to the lark's gay song | E |
| Full of thy spirit lightly trips along | E |
| With joyful kisses greets the first born flowers | F |
| And o'er them breathes thy warm refreshing showers | F |
| Or when on shadowy pillow in the west | G |
| Fann'd by thy gentlest Zephyrs into rest | G |
| Eve sweetly dozes whilst as in a dream | H |
| She sees the glimmerings of the solar beam | H |
| O'er the dim landscape languishingly stray | C |
| On ocean's smiling face reflected play | C |
| Fade in the purple ether's darkening hues | I |
| And vernal peace and joy o'er earth diffuse | J |
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| More grateful strains O Spring thy favours claim | K |
| Shine on thy beauties and endear thy name | K |
| While Winter's winds thy new born charms deface | L |
| And the young Year starves in his cold embrace | L |
| The Hours by stealth advancing bear away | C |
| And on thy lap with smiles of pleasure lay | C |
| The shivering Babe new vigour there he gains | M |
| And spreads thy various treasures o'er the plains | M |
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| The joyous Naiades from their icy bands | N |
| Unfetter'd dance and warble o'er the lands | N |
| The Dryads feel thy genial breath and raise | O |
| Their heads new crown'd with leaves and whisper praise | O |
| The plumy warblers wake their amorous strains | M |
| The herds and flocks sport o'er the fresh green plains | M |
| Fancy and Hope return the mind to bless | P |
| A paradise she sees and dreams of happiness | Q |
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| Come then indulgent Ruler of the year | R |
| Sweet Spring to grateful Nature ever dear | R |
| From the blest regions of Elysian day | C |
| Climes favour'd high with thy perennial sway | C |
| O deign to come and let our raptured eyes | S |
| View thee as through a veil in these obscurer skies | S |
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| Methinks I see thee coming from afar | T |
| Thy beauty decks Apollo's mounting car | T |
| The tyrant of the north with dazzled sight | U |
| Beholds and yielding meditates his flight | U |
| His dread petrific rod he long has broke | V |
| And freed glad Nature from his icy yoke | V |
| She lifts her head and hails the approaching hour | B |
| When she shall feel thy more propitious power | B |
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| O haste thy progress and exert thy sway | C |
| In all thy charms on some thrice hallow'd day | C |
| When the soft whispering air to Fancy's ears | W |
| Wafts the celestial music of the spheres | W |
| While Pleasures Loves and Graces round thee fly | X |
| Glide on a sun beam down the clear blue sky | X |
| Crown'd with a myrtle wreath begin thy reign | A |
| Bid lingering Winter fly with all his train | A |
| Pour forth thy favours o'er this western isle | Y |
| And let each grateful eye reflect thy smile | Y |
Thomas Oldham
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