To Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FEFEEEEE GHGHIEIE JEJEGKGK| Beauty beloved of all gentle hearts | A |
| And pure and cherished of the gifted tribe | B |
| Whose skill to canvas and even stone imparts | A |
| Such things as words are powerless to describe | B |
| And bards who woo thee in the silent shade | C |
| And dote upon thee under moonlit skies | D |
| And lovers who behold thee new array'd | C |
| As our first parents did in Paradise | E |
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| These all have been thy priests In times remote | F |
| In Athens and the cool Thessalian dells | E |
| They sung thy liturgy with dulcet note | F |
| And quaff'd thy chalice from the sacred wells | E |
| Of leafy Helicon Beneath the brows | E |
| Of fam'd Olympus and among the isles | E |
| Of the Aegean sea they paid their vows | E |
| And read thy lore in Nature's frowns and smiles | E |
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| Nor strange to Zion's sanctuaried hill | G |
| Wast thou embalmer of the holy page | H |
| Ambrosial odors from thy garments fill | G |
| The garden where the amorous royal sage | H |
| Walk'd and discours'd with his beloved there | I |
| Alluring in thy soft and sumptuous dress | E |
| And to his kinglier sire supremely fair | I |
| Companion sweet of meek ey'd Holiness | E |
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| Thou hast no local temple no set shrine | J |
| Thou art diffus'd o'er earth and sky and sea | E |
| In every land a thousand haunts are thine | J |
| Spirits of every race respond to thee | E |
| Here thy Olympus and thy Zion hill | G |
| Thy silvery Aegean I survey | K |
| Thy majesty and loveliness at will | G |
| I view and own thy tranquilizing sway | K |
W. M. Mackeracher
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