Love Elegy, To Laura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JIJI KLKL MNMN LALA OPOP BQBQ LFLF| Too heedless friend why thus augment the flame | A |
| That glows resistless in my beating breast | B |
| Why with thy praises grace his fatal name | A |
| Who robs thy Emma's hapless heart of rest | B |
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| Why needest thou dwell on Henry's graceful ease | C |
| Why praise the timid worth his glance reveals | D |
| Why speak enraptured of his power to please | C |
| Whose power to wound my aching bosom feels | D |
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| Say not That gentle voice was formed for love | E |
| Nor in his eyes such sweet expression see | F |
| Say not that tenderness those glances prove | G |
| Which never fix with tenderness on me | F |
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| Too well my Henry's charms I've numbered o'er | H |
| And thus to end the fond survey is mine | I |
| His heart will own some brighter fair one's power | H |
| Think not lost Emma he can e'er be thine | I |
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| Yet why despair Though Beauty's boasted rose | J |
| On others' cheeks in livelier colours shine | I |
| The tender heart that in my bosom glows | J |
| The palm of fondness will to none resign | I |
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| Though brighter radiance beams in others' eyes | K |
| By shape by colour formed the soul to steal | L |
| If Love's expression Henry's heart can prize | K |
| Then Henry's heart the power of mine must feel | L |
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| Yet vain the hope Fond maid thy love suppress | M |
| Calm Reason cries go learn to check the sigh | N |
| But if resolved to love in rash excess | M |
| Seek out some lonely shade despair and die | N |
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| Then Laura bid to Henry's praise farewel | L |
| Forget his merit and my hopeless flame | A |
| On the dear theme no more ill judging dwell | L |
| And from thy memory blot his fatal name | A |
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| But if I urge this plaintive prayer in vain | O |
| Bid execrations on that name attend | P |
| And him my Laura view with cold disdain | O |
| Who sees unmoved the sorrows of thy friend | P |
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| Say such the scorn the pride of Henry's breast | B |
| It cannot Love's endearing softness share | Q |
| Say vice degrades Hold slight my wild request | B |
| Nor by such calumny my fury dare | Q |
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| No from my frantic wishes still appeal | L |
| Declare that Henry is from error free | F |
| Or the keen hate for him I bade thee feel | L |
| My wayward heart will learn to feel for thee | F |
Amelia Opie
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