Sketches In The Exhibition, 1805. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD E FFGGHH D IIJJKKCCLM| What various objects strike with various force | A |
| Achilles Hebe and Sir Watkin's horse | A |
| Here summer scenes there Pentland's stormy ridge | B |
| Lords ladies Noah's ark and Cranford bridge | B |
| Some that display the elegant design | C |
| The lucid colours and the flowing line | C |
| Some that might make alas Walsh Porter stare | D |
| And wonder how the devil they got there | D |
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| Lady M ve | E |
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| How clear a strife of light and shade is spread | F |
| The face how touched with nature's loveliest red | F |
| The eye how eloquent and yet how meek | G |
| The glow subdued yet mantling on thy cheek | G |
| M ve I mark alone thy beauteous face | H |
| But all is nature dignity and grace | H |
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| Hon Miss Mercer Hopner | D |
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| Oh hide those tempting eyes that faultless form | I |
| Those looks with feeling and with nature warm | I |
| The neck the softly swelling bosom hide | J |
| Nor wanton gales blow the light vest aside | J |
| For who when beauties more than life excite | K |
| Silent applause can gaze without delight | K |
| But innocence enchanting maid is thine | C |
| Thine eyes in liquid light unconscious shine | C |
| And may thy breast no other feelings prove | L |
| Than those of sympathy and mutual love | M |
William Lisle Bowles
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