Joy That's Half Too Keen, And True Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEAC FGGGHHFG| Joy that's half too keen and true | A |
| Makes us tears | B |
| Oh the sweetness of the tears | B |
| If such joy at hand appears | C |
| Snatch it give thine all for it | D |
| Joy that is so exquisite | E |
| Lost comes not new | A |
| One blossom for a hundred years | C |
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| Grief that's fond and dies not soon | F |
| Makes delight | G |
| Oh the pain of the delight | G |
| If thy grief be love's aright | G |
| Tend it close and let it grow | H |
| Grief so tender not to know | H |
| Loses Love's boon | F |
| Sweet Philomel sings all the night | G |
Augusta Davies Webster
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