Upon A Visit To A Lady Of Quality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHIJ KKBB LLMM NNOO PPBB| On fair Asteria's blissful plains | A |
| Where ever blooming fancy reigns | A |
| How pleased we pass the winter's day | B |
| And charm the dull eyed Spleen away | B |
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| No linnet from the leafless bough | C |
| Pours forth her note melodious now | C |
| But all admire Asteria's tongue | D |
| Nor wish the linnet's vernal song | E |
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| No flowers emit their transient rays | F |
| Yet sure Asteria's wit displays | F |
| More various tints more glowing lines | G |
| And with perennial beauty shines | G |
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| Though rifled groves and fetter'd streams | H |
| But ill befriend a poet's dreams | H |
| Asteria's presence wakes the lyre | I |
| And well supplies poetic fire | J |
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| The fields have lost their lovely dye | K |
| No cheerful azure decks the sky | K |
| Yet still we bless the lowering day | B |
| Asteria smiles and all is gay | B |
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| Hence let the Muse no more presume | L |
| To blame the winter's dreary gloom | L |
| Accuse his loitering hours no more | M |
| But ah their envious haste deplore | M |
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| For soon from Wit and Friendship's reign | N |
| The social hearth the sprightly vein | N |
| I go to meet the coming year | O |
| On savage plains and deserts drear | O |
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| I go to feed on pleasures flown | P |
| Nor find the spring my loss atone | P |
| But 'mid the flowery sweets of May | B |
| With pride recall this winter's day | B |
William Shenstone
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