An Irregular Ode, After Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC B AADAAD BBAAAA BBEE FFAAGHIAAI IJIJIKKILLBB AAMMA IIAAAANNDD AAKKOPQO AARSTRAAUU VAAVKFKFAA AAAAIEIAAEWW XXGFGFAA AAKKNN MMYZZAAY BA2B2BMelius bunny venerit ipsa canemus | A |
Virg | B |
Imitation | C |
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His wish'd for presence will improve the song | B |
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Too long a stranger to repose | A |
At length from Pain's abhorred couch I rose | A |
And wander'd forth alone | D |
To court once more the balmy breeze | A |
And catch the verdure of the trees | A |
Ere yet their charms were flown | D |
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'Twas from a bank with pansies gay | B |
I hail'd once more the cheerful day | B |
The sun's forgotten beams | A |
O Sun how pleasing were thy rays | A |
Reflected from the polish'd face | A |
Of yon refulgent streams | A |
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Raised by the scene my feeble tongue | B |
Essay'd again the sweets of song | B |
And thus in feeble strains and slow | E |
The loitering numbers 'gan to flow | E |
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'Come gentle Air my languid limbs restore | F |
And bid me welcome from the Stygian shore | F |
For sure I heard the tender sighs | A |
I seem'd to join the plaintive cries | A |
Of hapless youths who through the myrtle grove | G |
Bewail for ever their unfinish'd love | H |
To that unjoyous clime | I |
Torn from the sight of these ethereal skies | A |
Debarr'd the lustre of their Delia's eyes | A |
And banish'd in their prime | I |
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'Come gentle Air and while the thickets bloom | I |
Convey the jasmine's breath divine | J |
Convey the woodbine's rich perfume | I |
Nor spare the sweet leaf'd eglantine | J |
And mayst thou shun the rugged storm | I |
Till Health her wonted charms explain | K |
With Rural Pleasure in her train | K |
To greet me in her fairest form | I |
While from this lofty mount I view | L |
The Sons of earth the vulgar crew | L |
Anxious for futile gains beneath me stray | B |
And seek with erring step Contentment's obvious way | B |
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'Come gentle Air and thou celestial Muse | A |
Thy genial flame infuse | A |
Enough to lend a pensive bosom aid | M |
And gild Retirement's gloomy shade | M |
Enough to rear such rustic lays | A |
As foes may slight but partial friends will praise ' | - |
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The gentle Air allow'd my claim | I |
And more to cheer my drooping frame | I |
She mixt the balm of opening flowers | A |
Such as the bee with chemic powers | A |
From Hybla's fragrant hills inhales | A |
Or scents Sabea's blooming vales | A |
But ah the nymphs that heal the pensive mind | N |
By prescripts more refined | N |
Neglect their votary's anxious moan | D |
Oh how should they relieve the Muses all were flown | D |
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By flowery plain or woodland shades | A |
I fondly sought the charming maids | A |
By woodland shades or flowery plain | K |
I sought them faithless maids in vain | K |
When lo in happier hour | O |
I leave behind my native mead | P |
To range where Zeal and Friendship lead | Q |
To visit Luxborough's honour'd bower | O |
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Ah foolish man to seek the tuneful maids | A |
On other plains or near less verdant shades | A |
Scarce have my footsteps press'd the favour'd ground | R |
When sounds ethereal strike my ear | S |
At once celestial forms appear | T |
My fugitives are found | R |
The Muses here attune their lyres | A |
Ah partial with unwonted fires | A |
Here hand in hand with careless mien | U |
The sportive graces trip the green | U |
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But whilst I wander'd o'er a scene so fair | V |
Too well at one survey I trace | A |
How every Muse and every Grace | A |
Had long employ'd their care | V |
Lurks not a stone enrich'd with lively stain | K |
Blooms not a flower amid the vernal store | F |
Falls not a plume on India's distant plain | K |
Glows not a shell on Adria's rocky shore | F |
But torn methought from native lands or seas | A |
From their arrangement gain fresh power to please | A |
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And some had bent the wildering maze | A |
Bedeck'd with every shrub that blows | A |
And some entwined the willing sprays | A |
To shield th' illustrious dame's repose | A |
Others had graced the sprightly dome | I |
And taught the portrait where to glow | E |
Others arranged the curious tome | I |
Or 'mid the decorated space | A |
Assign'd the laurell'd bust a place | A |
And given to learning all the pomp of show | E |
And now from every task withdrawn | W |
They met and frisk'd it o'er the lawn | W |
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Ah woe is me said I | X |
And 's hilly circuit heard my cry | X |
Have I for this with labour strove | G |
And lavish'd all my little store | F |
To fence for you my shady grove | G |
And scollop every winding shore | F |
And fringe with every purple rose | A |
The sapphire stream that down my valley flows | A |
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Ah lovely treacherous maids | A |
To quit unseen my votive shades | A |
When pale Disease and torturing Pain | K |
Had torn me from the breezy plain | K |
And to a restless couch confined | N |
Who ne'er your wonted tasks declined | N |
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She needs not your officious aid | M |
To swell the song or plan the shade | M |
By genuine Fancy fired | Y |
Her native genius guides her hand | Z |
And while she marks the sage command | Z |
More lovely scenes her skill shall raise | A |
Her lyre resound with nobler lays | A |
Than ever you inspired | Y |
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Thus I my rage and grief display | B |
But vainly blame and vainly mourn | A2 |
Nor will a Grace or Muse return | B2 |
Till Luxborough lead the way | B |
William Shenstone
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