Sonnet Iii: To A Nightingale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFAGHH| Poor melancholy bird that all night long | A |
| Tell'st to the Moon thy tale of tender woe | B |
| From what sad cause can such sweet sorrow flow | B |
| And whence this mournful melody of song | A |
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| Thy poet's musing fancy would translate | C |
| What mean the sounds that swell thy little breast | D |
| When still at dewy eve thou leav'st thy nest | D |
| Thus to the listening night to sing thy fate | C |
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| Pale Sorrow's victims wert thou once among | E |
| Tho' now releas'd in woodlands wild to rove | F |
| Say hast thou felt from friends some cruel wrong | A |
| Or diedst thou martyr of disastrous love | G |
| Ah songstress sad that such my lot might be | H |
| To sigh and sing at liberty like thee | H |
Charlotte Smith
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