To A Lady Of Quality, Fitting Up Her Library Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN OOPP| Ah what is science what is art | A |
| Or what the pleasure these impart | A |
| Ye trophies which the learn'd pursue | B |
| Through endless fruitless toils adieu | B |
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| What can the tedious tomes bestow | C |
| To soothe the miseries they show | C |
| What like the bliss for him decreed | D |
| Who tends his flock and tunes his reed | D |
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| Say wretched Fancy thus refined | E |
| From all that glads the simplest hind | E |
| How rare that object which supplies | F |
| A charm for too discerning eyes | F |
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| The polish'd bard of genius vain | G |
| Endures a deeper sense of pain | G |
| As each invading blast devours | H |
| The richest fruits the fairest flowers | H |
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| Sages with irksome waste of time | I |
| The steep ascent of knowledge climb | I |
| Then from the towering heights they scale | J |
| Behold contentment range the vale | J |
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| Yet why Asteria tell us why | K |
| We scorn the crowd when you are nigh | K |
| Why then does reason seem so fair | L |
| Why learning then deserve our care | L |
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| Who can unpleased your shelves behold | M |
| While you so fair a proof unfold | M |
| What force the brightest genius draws | N |
| From polish'd wisdom's written laws | N |
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| Where are our humbler tenets flown | O |
| What strange perfection bids us own | O |
| That Bliss with toilsome Science dwells | P |
| And happiest he who most excels | P |
William Shenstone
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