Addressed To Miss ----, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference, An Ode, By Mrs. Greville. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR DSDT UEUE CICI VWVW XEXE YDLD ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2 LWLW D2E2D2E2 C2C2C2C2 C2F2C2G2 H2FI2G J2K2J2K2 C2E2C2E2 J2L2M2N2 KYO2Y P2Q2P2Q2| And dwells there in a female heart | A |
| By bounteous Heaven design'd | B |
| The choicest raptures to impart | A |
| To feel the most refined | B |
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| Dwells there a wish in such a breast | C |
| Its nature to forego | D |
| To smother in ignoble rest | C |
| At once both bliss and woe | D |
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| Far be the thought and far the strain | E |
| Which breathes the low desire | F |
| How sweet soe'er the verse complain | E |
| Though Phoebus string the lyre | G |
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| Come then fair maid in nature wise | H |
| Who knowing them can tell | I |
| From generous sympathy what joys | J |
| The glowing bosom swell | I |
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| In justice to the various powers | K |
| Of pleasing which you share | L |
| Join me amid your silent hours | K |
| To form the better prayer | L |
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| With lenient balm may Oberon hence | M |
| To fairy land be driven | N |
| With every herb that blunts the sense | M |
| Mankind received from heaven | N |
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| Oh if my sovereign Author please | O |
| Far be it from my fate | P |
| To live unblest in torpid ease | O |
| And slumber on in state | P |
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| Each tender tie of life defied | Q |
| Whence social pleasures spring | R |
| Unmoved with all the world beside | Q |
| A solitary thing | R |
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| Some Alpine mountain wrapt in snow | D |
| Thus braves the whirling blast | S |
| Eternal winter doom'd to know | D |
| No genial spring to taste | T |
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| In vain warm suns their influence shed | U |
| The zephyrs sport in vain | E |
| He rears unchanged his barren head | U |
| Whilst beauty decks the plain | E |
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| What though in scaly armour dress'd | C |
| Indifference may repel | I |
| The shafts of woe in such a breast | C |
| No joy can ever dwell | I |
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| 'Tis woven in the world's great plan | V |
| And fix'd by Heaven's decree | W |
| That all the true delights of man | V |
| Should spring from sympathy | W |
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| 'Tis nature bids and whilst the laws | X |
| Of nature we retain | E |
| Our self approving bosom draws | X |
| A pleasure from its pain | E |
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| Thus grief itself has comforts dear | Y |
| The sordid never know | D |
| And ecstacy attends the tear | L |
| When virtue bids it flow | D |
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| For when it streams from that pure source | Z |
| No bribes the heart can win | A2 |
| To check or alter from its course | Z |
| The luxury within | A2 |
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| Peace to the phlegm of sullen elves | B2 |
| Who if from labour eased | C2 |
| Extend no care beyond themselves | B2 |
| Unpleasing and unpleased | C2 |
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| Let no low thought suggest the prayer | L |
| Oh grant kind Heaven to me | W |
| Long as I draw ethereal air | L |
| Sweet Sensibility | W |
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| Where'er the heavenly nymph is seen | D2 |
| With lustre beaming eye | E2 |
| A train attendant on their queen | D2 |
| Her rosy chorus fly | E2 |
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| The jocund loves in Hymen's band | C2 |
| With torches ever bright | C2 |
| And generous friendship hand in hand | C2 |
| With pity's wat'ry sight | C2 |
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| The gentler virtues too are join'd | C2 |
| In youth immortal warm | F2 |
| The soft relations which combined | C2 |
| Give life her every charm | G2 |
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| The arts come smiling in the close | H2 |
| And lend celestial fire | F |
| The marble breathes the canvas glows | I2 |
| The muses sweep the lyre | G |
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| Still may my melting bosom cleave | J2 |
| To sufferings not my own | K2 |
| And still the sigh responsive heave | J2 |
| Where'er is heard a groan | K2 |
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| So pity shall take virtue's part | C2 |
| Her natural ally | E2 |
| And fashioning my soften'd heart | C2 |
| Prepare it for the sky | E2 |
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| This artless vow may heaven receive | J2 |
| And you fond maid approve | L2 |
| So may your guiding angel give | M2 |
| Whate'er you wish or love | N2 |
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| So may the rosy finger'd hours | K |
| Lead on the various year | Y |
| And every joy which now is yours | O2 |
| Extend a larger sphere | Y |
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| And suns to come as round they wheel | P2 |
| Your golden moments bless | Q2 |
| With all a tender heart can feel | P2 |
| Or lively fancy guess | Q2 |
William Cowper
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