The Last Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNEEN GGOPPO KQRSSR TTUVVU WWXGGX YYZA2A2A2Go to the forest shade | A |
Seek thou the well known glade | A |
Where heavy with sweet dew the violets lie | B |
Gleaming thro' moss tufts deep | C |
Like dark eyes fill'd with sleep | C |
And bath'd in hues of summer's midnight sky | B |
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Bring me their buds to shed | D |
Around my dying bed | D |
A breath of May and of the wood's repose | E |
For I in sooth depart | F |
With a reluctant heart | F |
That fain would linger where the bright sun glows | E |
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Fain would I stay with thee | G |
Alas this may not be | G |
Yet bring me still the gifts of happier hours | H |
Go where the fountain's breast | I |
Catches in glassy rest | I |
The dim green light that pours thro' laurel bowers | H |
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I know how softly bright | J |
Steep'd in that tender light | J |
The water lilies tremble there ev'n now | K |
Go to the pure stream's edge | L |
And from its whisp'ring sedge | L |
Bring me those flowers to cool my fever'd brow | K |
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Then as in Hope's young days | M |
Track thou the antique maze | M |
Of the rich garden to its grassy mound | N |
There is a lone white rose | E |
Shedding in sudden snows | E |
Its faint leaves o'er the emerald turf around | N |
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Well know'st thou that fair tree | G |
A murmur of the bee | G |
Dwells ever in the honey'd lime above | O |
Bring me one pearly flower | P |
Of all its clustering shower | P |
For on that spot we first reveal'd our love | O |
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Gather one woodbine bough | K |
Then from the lattice low | Q |
Of the bower'd cottage which I bade thee mark | R |
When by the hamlet last | S |
Thro' dim wood lanes we pass'd | S |
While dews were glancing to the glowworm's spark | R |
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Haste to my pillow bear | T |
Those fragrant things and fair | T |
My hand no more may bind them up at eve | U |
Yet shall their odour soft | V |
One bright dream round me waft | V |
Of life youth summer all that I must leave | U |
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And oh if thou wouldst ask | W |
Wherefore thy steps I task | W |
The grove the stream the hamlet vale to trace | X |
'Tis that some thought of me | G |
When I am gone may be | G |
The spirit bound to each familiar place | X |
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I bid mine image dwell | Y |
Oh break not thou the spell | Y |
In the deep wood and by the fountain side | Z |
Thou must not my belov'd | A2 |
Rove where we two have rov'd | A2 |
Forgetting her that in her spring time died | A2 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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