On Happiness In This Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJKL MMAANNJJOOPPJJQQRS| The morning opens very freshly gay | A |
| And life itself is in the month of May | A |
| With green my fancy paints an arbour o'er | B |
| And flowrets with a thousand colours more | C |
| Then falls to weaving that and spreading these | D |
| And softly shakes them with an easy breeze | D |
| With golden fruit adorns the bending shade | E |
| Or trails a silver water o'er its bed | F |
| Glide gentle water still more gently by | G |
| While in this summer bower of bliss I lye | G |
| And sweetly sing of sense delighting flames | H |
| And nymphs and shepherds soft invented names | H |
| Or view the branches which around me twine | I |
| And praise their fruit diffusing sprightly wine | I |
| Or find new pleasures in the world to praise | J |
| And still with this return adorn my lays | J |
| 'Range round your gardens of eternal spring | K |
| 'Go range my senses while I sweetly sing ' | L |
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| In vain in vain alas seduc'd by ill | M |
| And acted wildly by the force of will | M |
| I tell my soul it will be constant May | A |
| And Charm a season never made to stay | A |
| My beauteous arbour will not stand a storm | N |
| The world but promises and can't perform | N |
| Then fade ye leaves and wither all ye flow'rs | J |
| I'll doat no longer in enchanted bow'rs | J |
| But sadly mourn in melancholy song | O |
| The vain conceits that held my soul so long | O |
| The lusts that tempt us with delusive show | P |
| And sin brought forth for everlasting woe | P |
| Thus shall the notes to sorrow's object rise | J |
| While frequent rests procure a place for sighs | J |
| And as I moan upon the naked plain | Q |
| Be this the burthen closing ev'ry strain | Q |
| Return my senses range no more abroad | R |
| He'll only find his bliss who seeks for God | S |
Thomas Parnell
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