Anacreontic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI JCJC KLKL MNMN| 'Twas in a cool Aonian glade | A |
| The wanton Cupid spent with toil | B |
| Had sought refreshment from the shade | A |
| And stretch'd him on the mossy soil | B |
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| A vagrant Muse drew nigh and found | C |
| The subtle traitor fast asleep | D |
| And is it thine to snore profound | C |
| She said yet leave the world to weep | D |
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| But hush from this auspicious hour | E |
| The world I ween may rest in peace | F |
| And robb'd of darts and stript of power | E |
| Thy peevish petulance decrease | F |
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| Sleep on poor Child whilst I withdraw | G |
| And this thy vile artillery hide | H |
| When the Castalian fount she saw | G |
| And plunged his arrows in the tide | H |
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| That magic fount ill judging maid | A |
| Shall cause you soon to curse the day | I |
| You dared the shafts of Love invade | A |
| And gave his arms redoubled sway | I |
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| For in a stream so wondrous clear | J |
| When angry Cupid searches round | C |
| Will not the radiant points appear | J |
| Will not the furtive spoils be found | C |
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| Too soon they were and every dart | K |
| Dipt in the Muse's mystic spring | L |
| Acquired new force to wound the heart | K |
| And taught at once to love and sing | L |
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| Then farewell ye Pierian quire | M |
| For who will now your altars throng | N |
| From Love we learn to swell the lyre | M |
| And Echo asks no sweeter song | N |
William Shenstone
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