It Is Not Beauty I Demand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUTU VWVW| It is not Beauty I demand | A |
| A crystal brow the moon's despair | B |
| Nor the snow's daughter a white hand | A |
| Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair | B |
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| Tell me not of your starry eyes | C |
| Your lips that seem on roses fed | D |
| Your breasts where Cupid trembling lies | C |
| Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed | D |
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| A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks | E |
| Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours | F |
| A breath that softer music speaks | E |
| Than summer winds a wooing flowers | F |
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| These are but gauds nay what are lips | G |
| Coral beneath the ocean stream | H |
| Whose brink when your adventurer sips | G |
| Full oft he perisheth on them | I |
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| And what are cheeks but ensigns oft | J |
| That wave hot youth to fields of blood | K |
| Did Helen's breast though ne'er so soft | L |
| Do Greece or Ilium any good | M |
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| Eyes can with baleful ardor burn | N |
| Poison can breath that erst perfumed | O |
| There's many a white hand holds an urn | N |
| With lovers' hearts to dust consumed | O |
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| For crystal brows there's naught within | P |
| They are but empty cells for pride | Q |
| He who the Syren's hair would win | P |
| Is mostly strangled in the tide | Q |
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| Give me instead of beauty's bust | R |
| A tender heart a loyal mind | S |
| Which with temptation I could trust | R |
| Yet never linked with error find | S |
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| One in whose gentle bosom I | T |
| Could pour my secret heart of woes | U |
| Like the care burdened honey fly | T |
| That hides his murmurs in the rose | U |
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| My earthly comforter whose love | V |
| So indefeasible might be | W |
| That when my spirit won above | V |
| Hers could not stay for sympathy | W |
George Darley
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