The Last Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNEEN GGOPPO KQRSSR TTUVVU WWXGGX YYZA2A2A2

Go to the forest shadeA
Seek thou the well known gladeA
Where heavy with sweet dew the violets lieB
Gleaming thro' moss tufts deepC
Like dark eyes fill'd with sleepC
And bath'd in hues of summer's midnight skyB
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Bring me their buds to shedD
Around my dying bedD
A breath of May and of the wood's reposeE
For I in sooth departF
With a reluctant heartF
That fain would linger where the bright sun glowsE
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Fain would I stay with theeG
Alas this may not beG
Yet bring me still the gifts of happier hoursH
Go where the fountain's breastI
Catches in glassy restI
The dim green light that pours thro' laurel bowersH
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I know how softly brightJ
Steep'd in that tender lightJ
The water lilies tremble there ev'n nowK
Go to the pure stream's edgeL
And from its whisp'ring sedgeL
Bring me those flowers to cool my fever'd browK
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Then as in Hope's young daysM
Track thou the antique mazeM
Of the rich garden to its grassy moundN
There is a lone white roseE
Shedding in sudden snowsE
Its faint leaves o'er the emerald turf aroundN
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Well know'st thou that fair treeG
A murmur of the beeG
Dwells ever in the honey'd lime aboveO
Bring me one pearly flowerP
Of all its clustering showerP
For on that spot we first reveal'd our loveO
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Gather one woodbine boughK
Then from the lattice lowQ
Of the bower'd cottage which I bade thee markR
When by the hamlet lastS
Thro' dim wood lanes we pass'dS
While dews were glancing to the glowworm's sparkR
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Haste to my pillow bearT
Those fragrant things and fairT
My hand no more may bind them up at eveU
Yet shall their odour softV
One bright dream round me waftV
Of life youth summer all that I must leaveU
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And oh if thou wouldst askW
Wherefore thy steps I taskW
The grove the stream the hamlet vale to traceX
'Tis that some thought of meG
When I am gone may beG
The spirit bound to each familiar placeX
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I bid mine image dwellY
Oh break not thou the spellY
In the deep wood and by the fountain sideZ
Thou must not my belov'dA2
Rove where we two have rov'dA2
Forgetting her that in her spring time diedA2

Felicia Dorothea Hemans



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