Elegy Xii. His Recantation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF BDBD GHGH IDID| No more the Muse obtrudes her thin disguise | A |
| No more with awkward fallacy complains | B |
| How every fervour from my bosom flies | A |
| And Reason in her lonesome palace reigns | B |
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| Ere the chill winter of our days arrive | C |
| No more she paints the breast from passion free | D |
| I feel I feel one loitering wish survive | C |
| Ah need I Florio name that wish to thee | D |
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| The star of Venus ushers in the day | E |
| The first the loveliest of the train that shine | F |
| The star of Venus lends her brightest ray | E |
| When other stars their friendly beams resign | F |
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| Still in my breast one soft desire remains | B |
| Pure as that star from guilt from interest free | D |
| Has gentle Delia tripp'd across the plains | B |
| And need I Florio name that wish to thee | D |
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| While cloy'd to find the scenes of life the same | G |
| I tune with careless hand my languid lays | H |
| Some secret impulse wakes my former flame | G |
| And fires my strain with hopes of brighter days | H |
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| I slept not long beneath yon rural bowers | I |
| And lo my crook with flowers adorn'd I see | D |
| Has gentle Delia bound my crook with flowers | I |
| And need I Florio name my hopes to thee | D |
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