Love Elegy, To Henry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OMOM PGPG QRQR ESES RERE TIUI| Then thou hast learnt the secret of my soul | A |
| Officious Friendship has its trust betrayed | B |
| No more I need the bursting sigh control | A |
| Nor summon pride my struggling soul to aid | B |
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| But think not banished hope returns again | C |
| Think not I write thy thankless heart to move | D |
| The faded form that tells my tender pain | E |
| May win thy pity but it can't thy love | F |
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| Nor can I move thee by soft winning art | G |
| By manners taught to charm or practised glance | H |
| Artless as thine my too too feeling heart | G |
| Disdains the tutored eye the fond advance | H |
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| The cold coquette to win her destined prey | I |
| May feign a passion which she ne'er can feel | J |
| But I true Passion's soft commands obey | I |
| And fain my tender feelings would conceal | J |
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| In others' eyes when fixed on thine I see | K |
| That fondness painted which alone I know | L |
| Think not my Henry they can love like me | K |
| More love I hide than they can e'er bestow | L |
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| While tender glances their emotions speak | M |
| And oft they heave and oft suppress the sigh | N |
| O turn to me behold my pallid cheek | M |
| Shrinking from thine behold my downcast eye | N |
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| While they by mirth by wit thine ear amuse | O |
| And by their eloquence thy plaudits seek | M |
| See me the fond contention still refuse | O |
| Nor in thy presence Henry dare to speak | M |
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| When asked to breathe the soul enchanting song | P |
| See them o'erjoyed exert their utmost art | G |
| While vainly I would join the choral throng | P |
| Lost are those tones which once could touch the heart | G |
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| But Henry wert thou in Love's language wise | Q |
| Vainly would others more than Emma shine | R |
| Beyond their sweetest strains thy heart would prize | Q |
| One faint one broken tender tone of mine | R |
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| O proofs of passion eloquent as vain | E |
| By thee unheeded or perhaps unknown | S |
| But learn the pangs that prompt this pensive strain | E |
| Ere long disdainful youth may be thine own | S |
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| Ah no in hopeless love thou canst not pine | R |
| Thou ne'er canst woo the brightest maid in vain | E |
| For thee Love's star midst cloudless skies will shine | R |
| And light thy graceful steps to Hymen's fane | E |
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| While I as hope and strength and life recede | T |
| Far far from thee shall waste the languid day | I |
| Blest if the scroll that speaks thy bliss I read | U |
| But far more blest to feel life's powers decay | I |
Amelia Opie
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