Verses, To William Lyttleton, Esq. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IAIA JKJK LBLM NONO PQPQ RDRD PPPP STST UVUV WDWD KXKX YZYA2 PB2PB2 PC2PC2 UPUP D2BD2BHow blithely pass'd the summer's day | A |
How bright was every flower | B |
While friends arrived in circles gay | A |
To visit Damon's bower | B |
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But now with silent step I range | C |
Along some lonely shore | D |
And Damon's bower alas the change | C |
Is gay with friends no more | D |
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Away to crowds and cities borne | E |
In quest of joy they steer | F |
Whilst I alas am left forlorn | E |
To weep the parting year | F |
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O pensive autumn how I grieve | G |
Thy sorrowing face to see | H |
When languid suns are taking leave | G |
Of every drooping tree | H |
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Ah let me not with heavy eye | I |
This dying scene survey | A |
Haste Winter Haste usurp the sky | I |
Complete my bower's decay | A |
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Ill can I bear the motley cast | J |
Yon sickening leaves retain | K |
That speak at once of pleasure past | J |
And bode approaching pain | K |
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At home unblest I gaze around | L |
My distant scenes require | B |
Where all in murky vapours drown'd | L |
Are hamlet hill and spire | M |
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Though Thomson sweet descriptive bard | N |
Inspiring Autumn sung | O |
Yet how should we the months regard | N |
That stopt his flowing tongue | O |
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Ah luckless months of all the rest | P |
To whose hard share it fell | Q |
For sure his was the gentlest breast | P |
That ever sung so well | Q |
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And see the swallows now disown | R |
The roofs they loved before | D |
Each like his tuneful genius flown | R |
To glad some happier shore | D |
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The wood nymph eyes with pale affright | P |
The sportsman's frantic deed | P |
While hounds and horns and yells unite | P |
To drown the Muse's reed | P |
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Ye fields with blighted herbage brown | S |
Ye skies no longer blue | T |
Too much we feel from Fortune's frown | S |
To bear these frowns from you | T |
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Where is the mead's unsullied green | U |
The zephyr's balmy gale | V |
And where sweet friendship's cordial mien | U |
That brighten'd every vale | V |
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What though the vine disclose her dyes | W |
And boast her purple store | D |
Not all the vineyard's rich supplies | W |
Can soothe our sorrows more | D |
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He he is gone whose moral strain | K |
Could wit and mirth refine | X |
He he is gone whose social vein | K |
Surpass'd the power of wine | X |
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Fast by the streams he deign'd to praise | Y |
In yon sequester'd grove | Z |
To him a votive urn I raise | Y |
To him and friendly Love | A2 |
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Yes there my friend forlorn and sad | P |
I grave your Thomson's name | B2 |
And there his lyre which Fate forbade | P |
To sound your growing fame | B2 |
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There shall my plaintive song recount | P |
Dark themes of hopeless woe | C2 |
And faster than the drooping fount | P |
I'll teach mine eyes to flow | C2 |
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There leaves in spite of Autumn green | U |
Shall shade the hallow'd ground | P |
And Spring will there again be seen | U |
To call forth flowers around | P |
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But no kind suns will bid me share | D2 |
Once more his social hour | B |
Ah Spring thou never canst repair | D2 |
This loss to Damon's bower | B |
William Shenstone
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