Advice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKLK MKMK| TO write as your sweet mother does | A |
| Is all you wish to do | B |
| Play sing and smile for others Rose | C |
| Let others write for you | B |
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| Or mount again your Dartmoor grey | D |
| And I will walk beside | E |
| Until we reach that quiet bay | D |
| Which only hears the tide | E |
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| Then wave at me your pencil then | F |
| At distance bid me stand | G |
| Before the cavern d cliff again | F |
| The creature of your hand | G |
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| And bid me then go past the nook | H |
| To sketch me less in size | I |
| There are but few content to look | H |
| So little in your eyes | I |
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| Delight us with the gifts you have | J |
| And wish for none beyond | K |
| To some be gay to some be grave | L |
| To one blest youth be fond | K |
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| Pleasures there are how close to Pain | M |
| And better unpossest | K |
| Let poetry s too throbbing vein | M |
| Lie quiet in your breast | K |
Walter Savage Landor
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