The Roasting Of Lydia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEEE FGFG HDHD IJIJ| No more your needed rest at night | A |
| By ribald youth is troubled | B |
| No more your windows fastened tight | A |
| Yield to their knocks redoubled | B |
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| No longer you may hear them cry | C |
| Why art thou Lydia lying | D |
| In heavy sleep till morn is nigh | C |
| While I your love am dying | D |
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| Grown old and faded you bewail | E |
| The rake's insulting sally | E |
| While round your home the Thracian gale | E |
| Storms through the lonely alley | E |
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| What furious thoughts will fill your breast | F |
| What passions fierce and tinglish | G |
| Cannot be properly expressed | F |
| In calm reposeful English | G |
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| Learn this and hold your carping tongue | H |
| Youth will be found rejoicing | D |
| In ivy green and myrtle young | H |
| The praise of fresh life voicing | D |
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| And not content to dedicate | I |
| With much protesting shiver | J |
| The sapless leaves to winter's mate | I |
| Hebrus the cold dark river | J |
Eugene Field
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