Ode - So Dear My Lucio Is To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ CICIKK LMNMOO PQPQCC| So dear my Lucio is to me | A |
| So well our minds and tempers blend | B |
| That seasons may for ever flee | A |
| And ne'er divide me from my friend | B |
| But let the favour'd boy forbear | C |
| To tempt with love my only fair | C |
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| O Lycon born when every Muse | D |
| When every Grace benignant smiled | E |
| With all a parent's breast could choose | D |
| To bless her loved her only child | E |
| 'Tis thine so richly graced to prove | F |
| More noble cares than cares of love | G |
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| Together we from early youth | H |
| Have trod the flowery tracks of time | I |
| Together mused in search of truth | H |
| O'er learned sage or bard sublime | I |
| And well thy cultured breast I know | J |
| What wondrous treasure it can show | J |
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| Come then resume thy charming lyre | C |
| And sing some patriot's worth sublime | I |
| Whilst I in fields of soft desire | C |
| Consume my fair and fruitless prime | I |
| Whose reed aspires but to display | K |
| The flame that burns me night and day | K |
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| O come the Dryads of the woods | L |
| Shall daily soothe thy studious mind | M |
| The blue eyed nymphs of yonder floods | N |
| Shall meet and court thee to be kind | M |
| And Fame sits listening for thy lays | O |
| To swell her trump with Lucio's praise | O |
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| Like me the plover fondly tries | P |
| To lure the sportsman from her nest | Q |
| And fluttering on with anxious cries | P |
| Too plainly shows her tortured breast | Q |
| O let him conscious of her care | C |
| Pity her pains and learn to spare | C |
William Shenstone
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