Three Verse Passages From A Prose Meditation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABC DDDEEAA DDDFFFGGFFHIH| On verdurd trees ye silver blossoms grow | A |
| Whose leaves atop their perfect whiteness show | A |
| faintly streak with stains of red below | A |
| The western breeze steales ore ye shady grove | B |
| to sigh near roses as insnard by love | C |
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| The waves pushed on by waves in mountains ly | D |
| Mixd with ye clouds ye Parent waters fly | D |
| the cross'd winds roar hideous in ye sky | D |
| The east west the south north contend | E |
| While the vexd sea beneath is neithers friend | E |
| Above ye winds below the billows Jarr | A |
| nature is become the seat of warr | A |
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| Look how ye silent waters stealing by | D |
| With such smooth motions as deceive our eye | D |
| Returns ye pleasing pictures of ye sky | D |
| There shines ye sun with imitated rayes | F |
| her borrowd light ye paler moon displays | F |
| ye cleare heavens wear an azure face | F |
| So lett thy temper due composure find | G |
| By all the modest rules that bound ye mind | G |
| That Whether fortune with a storm assails | F |
| Or Courts thy wishes with indulgent gales | F |
| No passion interpose a cloud between | H |
| But on thy bosome undisturbd within | I |
| May natures God natures form be seen | H |
Thomas Parnell
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