An Imitation Of Spenser Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACBCCDEFEEGEGE FHFHBFHH FIFIIFII JHJFHBHBH KHKHHBHBHH| light and truth's beams | A |
| In lucent words my darkling verses dight | B |
| And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams | A |
| That wisdom may descend in fairy dreams | A |
| All while the jocund hours in thy train | C |
| Scatter their fancies at thy poet's feet | B |
| And when thou yields to night thy wide domain | C |
| Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain | C |
| For brutish Pan in vain might thee assay | D |
| With tinkling sounds to dash thy nervous verse | E |
| Sound without sense yet in his rude affray | F |
| For ignorance is Folly's leasing nurse | E |
| And love of Folly needs none other's curse | E |
| Midas the praise hath gain'd of lengthen'd ears | G |
| For which himself might deem him ne'er the worse | E |
| To sit in council with his modern peers | G |
| And judge of tinkling rimes and elegances terse | E |
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| And thou Mercurius that with wing d brow | F |
| Dost mount aloft into the yielding sky | H |
| And thro' Heav'n's halls thy airy flight dost throw | F |
| Entering with holy feet to where on high | H |
| Jove weighs the counsel of futurity | B |
| Then laden with eternal fate dost go | F |
| Down like a falling star from autumn sky | H |
| And o'er the surface of the silent deep dost fly | H |
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| If thou arrivest at the sandy shore | F |
| Where nought but envious hissing adders dwell | I |
| Thy golden rod thrown on t he dusty floor | F |
| Can charm to harmony with potent spell | I |
| Such is sweet Eloquence that does dispel | I |
| Envy and Hate that thirst for human gore | F |
| And cause in sweet society to dwell | I |
| Vile savage minds that lurk in lonely cell | I |
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| O Mercury assist my lab'ring sense | J |
| That round the circle of the world would fly | H |
| As the wing'd eagle scorns the tow'ry fence | J |
| Of Alpine hills round his high a ry | F |
| And searches thro' the corners of the sky | H |
| Sports in the clouds to hear the thunder's sound | B |
| And see the wing d lightnings as they fly | H |
| Then bosom'd in an amber cloud around | B |
| Plumes his wide wings and seeks Sol's palace high | H |
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| And thou O warrior maid invincible | K |
| Arm'd with the terrors of Almighty Jove | H |
| Pallas Minerva maiden terrible | K |
| Lov'st thou to walk the peaceful solemn grove | H |
| In solemn gloom of branches interwove | H |
| Or bear'st thy AEgis o'er the burning field | B |
| Where like the sea the waves of battle move | H |
| Or have thy soft piteous eyes beheld | B |
| The weary wanderer thro' the desert rove | H |
| Or does th' afflicted man thy heav'nly bosom move | H |
William Blake
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