Ode To Simplicity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFG HHIJJK LLMNNM OOPQRP SSTUUT VVWXXW YYZA2A2Z B2B2C2D2D2C2| O thou by Nature taught | A |
| To breathe her genuine thought | A |
| In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong | B |
| Who first on mountains wild | C |
| In Fancy loveliest child | C |
| Thy babe or Pleasure's nurs'd the pow'rs of song | B |
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| Thou who with hermit heart | D |
| Disdain'st the wealth of art | D |
| And gauds and pageant weeds and trailing pall | E |
| But com'st a decent maid | F |
| In Attic robe array'd | F |
| O chaste unboastful nymph to thee I call | G |
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| By all the honey'd store | H |
| On Hybla's thymy shore | H |
| By all her blooms and mingled murmurs dear | I |
| By her whose lovelorn woe | J |
| In ev'ning musings slow | J |
| Sooth'd sweetly sad Electra's poet's ear | K |
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| By old Cephisus deep | L |
| Who spread his wavy sweep | L |
| In warbled wand'rings round thy green retreat | M |
| On whose enamell'd side | N |
| When holy Freedom died | N |
| No equal haunt allur'd thy future feet | M |
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| O sister meek of Truth | O |
| To my admiring youth | O |
| Thy sober aid and native charms infuse | P |
| The flow'rs that sweetest breathe | Q |
| Tho' Beauty cull'd the wreath | R |
| Still ask thy hand to range their order'd hues | P |
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| While Rome could none esteem | S |
| But virtue's patriot theme | S |
| You lov'd her hills and led her laureate band | T |
| But stay'd to sing alone | U |
| To one distinguish'd throne | U |
| And turn'd thy face and fled her alter'd land | T |
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| No more in hall or bow'r | V |
| The passions own thy pow'r | V |
| Love only love her forceless numbers mean | W |
| For thou hast left her shrine | X |
| Nor olive more nor vine | X |
| Shall gain thy feet to bless the servile scene | W |
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| Tho' taste tho' genius bless | Y |
| To some divine excess | Y |
| Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole | Z |
| What each what all supply | A2 |
| May court may charm our eye | A2 |
| Thou only thou canst raise the meeting soul | Z |
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| Of these let others ask | B2 |
| To aid some mighty task | B2 |
| I only seek to find thy temp'rate vale | C2 |
| Where oft my reed might sound | D2 |
| To maids and shepherds round | D2 |
| And all thy sons O Nature learn my tale | C2 |
William Taylor Collins
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