Ode To Indolence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKLK MNMN OPOP GQGQ RSRT| Ah why for ever on the wing | A |
| Persists my wearied soul to roam | B |
| Why ever cheated strives to bring | A |
| Or pleasure or contentment home | B |
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| Thus the poor bird that draws his name | C |
| From Paradise's honour'd groves | D |
| Careless fatigues his little frame | C |
| Nor finds the resting place he loves | E |
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| Lo on the rural mossy bed | F |
| My limbs with careless ease reclined | G |
| Ah gentle Sloth indulgent spread | F |
| The same soft bandage o'er my mind | G |
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| For why should lingering thought invade | H |
| Yet every worldly prospect cloy | I |
| Lend me soft Sloth thy friendly aid | H |
| And give me peace debarr'd of joy | I |
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| Lov'st thou yon calm and silent flood | J |
| That never ebbs that never flows | K |
| Protected by the circling wood | L |
| From each tempestuous wind that blows | K |
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| An altar on its bank shall rise | M |
| Where oft thy votary shall be found | N |
| What time pale Autumn lulls the skies | M |
| And sickening verdure fades around | N |
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| Ye busy Race ye factious Train | O |
| That haunt ambition's guilty shrine | P |
| No more perplex the world in vain | O |
| But offer here your vows with mine | P |
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| And thou puissant Queen be kind | G |
| If e'er I shared thy balmy power | Q |
| If e'er I sway'd my active mind | G |
| To weave for thee the rural bower | Q |
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| Dissolve in sleep each anxious care | R |
| Each unavailing sigh remove | S |
| And only let me wake to share | R |
| The sweets of friendship and of love | T |
William Shenstone
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