I. ‘My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind’

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I. ‘My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind’

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Rhyme scheme

Dominant: aabbaabb

aabb (100%: 1)

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Statistics

Line-groups or stanzas:	1
Poetic lines:	4
Speeches (verse drama):	0
Length in words:	32
Average word length:	4.56
End rhymes:	4
Masculine rhymes:	4
Feminine rhymes:	0
Dactylic rhymes:	0
Half rhymes:	0
Eye rhymes:	0
Identical rhymes:	0
Syllabic rhymes:	0
Cross-stanza rhymes:	0
Internal rhyme:	0
Anaphora:	0
Epistrophe:	0
Refrain:	0
Sonic device variant:	0

THOUGHTS IN RHYME.

BY ARCHÆUS.

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My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind,
At leaf-girt Adam’s stock so much refined !
The leaf has flourished wide in form and hue,
And the man dwindled while the foliage grew.

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I. ‘My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind’

Poet(s)

Sterling, John
Pseudonym:
Archæus

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

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Kaitlyn Fralick

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 48:298, 280, August 1840.

First line

My gay-garbed friend, much wonder fills the mind,

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Document status

Proofed: Initial proofing has been carried out by one of the encoders, and the document has passed inspection. This needs to be combined with an appropriate respStmt showing who did that work.

Notes and attribution research

Included under the general title “Thoughts in Rhyme” (280-8) (SK). Poet attribution: Archæus is the pseudonym of John Sterling (AC).

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THOUGHTS IN RHYME.

I.