You Ask Why These Mountains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EECCD FFCCD GGCCD| YOU ask why these mountains delight me no more | A |
| And why lovely Clwyd's attractions are o'er | B |
| Ah have you not heard then the cause of my pain | C |
| The pride of fair Clwyd the boast of the plain | C |
| We never no never shall gaze on again | D |
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| What though from her coldness keen anguish I felt | E |
| And vainly to move her in agony knelt | E |
| Yet could I restore her I'd never complain | C |
| Not e'en though she doomed me to endless disdain | C |
| I'd bear any torture to see her again | D |
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| I grieved when on others with kindness she gazed | F |
| I mourned when another with pleasure she praised | F |
| But could I recall her to life by my pain | C |
| I'd urge her to favour some happier swain | C |
| And wish no reward but to see her again | D |
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| Those beauties that charmed me from death I would free | G |
| Though sure that those beauties another's should be | G |
| But truth and affection and grief are all vain | C |
| The pride of fair Clwyd the boast of our plain | C |
| We never ah never can gaze on again | D |
Amelia Opie
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