Ode To A Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| Somewhat Too Solicitious about Her Manner of Expression | A |
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| Survey my fair that lucid stream | B |
| Adown the smiling valley stray | C |
| Would Art attempt or Fancy dream | B |
| To regulate its winding way | C |
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| So pleas'd I view thy shining hair | D |
| In loose dishevell'd ringlets flow | E |
| Not all thy art not all thy care | D |
| Can there one single grace bestow | E |
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| Survey again that verdant hill | F |
| With native plants enamell'd o'er | G |
| Say can the painter's utmost skill | F |
| Instruct one flower to please us more | H |
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| As vain it were with artful dye | I |
| To change the bloom thy cheeks disclose | J |
| And oh may Laura ere she try | I |
| With fresh vermilion paint the rose | J |
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| Hark how the wood lark's tuneful throat | K |
| Can every study'd grace excel | L |
| Let Art constrain the rambling note | K |
| And will she Laura please so well | L |
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| Oh ever keep thy native ease | M |
| By no pedantic law confin'd | N |
| For Laura's voice is form'd to please | M |
| So Laura's words be not unkind | N |
William Shenstone
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