Comparison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEBBE FFGHHG IIJKKJ DDLMML FFNIIO| 'Tis by comparison we know | A |
| On every object to bestow | A |
| Its proper share of praise | B |
| Did each alike perfection bear | C |
| What beauty though divinely fair | C |
| Could admiration raise | B |
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| Amidst the lucid bands of night | D |
| See Hesperus serenely bright | D |
| Adorns the distant skies | E |
| But languishes amidst the blaze | B |
| Of sprightly Sol's meridian rays | B |
| Or Silvia's brighter eyes | E |
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| Whene'er the nightingale complains | F |
| I like the melancholy strains | F |
| And praise the tuneful bird | G |
| But vainly might she strain her throat | H |
| Vainly exalt each swelling note | H |
| Should Silvia's voice be heard | G |
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| When on the violet's purple bed | I |
| Supine I rest my weary head | I |
| The fragrant pillow charms | J |
| Yet soon such languid bliss I'd fly | K |
| Would Silvia but the loss supply | K |
| And take me to her arms | J |
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| The alabaster's wondrous white | D |
| The marble's polish strikes my sight | D |
| When Silvia is not seen | L |
| But ah how faint that white is grown | M |
| How rough appears the polish'd stone | M |
| Compared with Silvia's mien | L |
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| The rose that o'er the Cyprian plains | F |
| With flowers enamell'd blooming reigns | F |
| With undisputed power | N |
| Placed near her cheek's celestial red | I |
| Its purple lost its lustre fled | I |
| Delights the sense no more | O |
William Shenstone
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