Epistle To Augusta.[83] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBDDD A EFGHIHJJ A KLMLMDNN O PQRQRQOO O QSQSQSTT O UVUVWVXQ O YZYOYZOA2 O B2C2B2C2D2USS O NE2NE2NE2OG O F2JF2JF2JG2G2 O H2OH2OH2OOO O I2OI2OI2OJ2J2 O K2BK2BK2BJJ O L2VH2UQVOO O M2N2O2N2O2N2P2P2 O Q2CO2CQ2CR2E A

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My Sister my sweet Sister if a nameB
Dearer and purer were it should be thineC
Mountains and seas divide us but I claimB
No tears but tenderness to answer mineC
Go where I will to me thou art the sameB
A loved regret which I would not resign zD
There yet are two things in my destinyD
A world to roam through and a home with theeD
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IIA
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The first were nothing had I still the lastE
It were the haven of my happinessF
But other claims and other ties thou hast aaG
And mine is not the wish to make them lessH
A strange doom is thy father's son's and past abI
Recalling as it lies beyond redressH
Reversed for him our grandsire's fate of yoreJ
He had no rest at sea nor I on shoreJ
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IIIA
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If my inheritance of storms hath beenK
In other elements and on the rocksL
Of perils overlooked or unforeseenM
I have sustained my share of worldly shocksL
The fault was mine nor do I seek to screenM
My errors with defensive paradox acD
I have been cunning in mine overthrowN
The careful pilot of my proper woeN
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IVO
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Mine were my faults and mine be their rewardP
My whole life was a contest since the dayQ
That gave me being gave me that which marredR
The gift a fate or will that walked astrayQ
And I at times have found the struggle hardR
And thought of shaking off my bonds of clayQ
But now I fain would for a time surviveO
If but to see what next can well arriveO
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VO
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Kingdoms and Empires in my little dayQ
I have outlived and yet I am not oldS
And when I look on this the petty sprayQ
Of my own years of trouble which have rolledS
Like a wild bay of breakers melts awayQ
Something I know not what does still upholdS
A spirit of slight patience not in vainT
Even for its own sake do we purchase PainT
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VIO
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Perhaps the workings of defiance stirU
Within me or perhaps a cold despairV
Brought on when ills habitually recurU
Perhaps a kinder clime or purer airV
For even to this may change of soul refer adW
And with light armour we may learn to bearV
Have taught me a strange quiet which was notX
The chief companion of a calmer lot aeQ
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VIIO
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I feel almost at times as I have feltY
In happy childhood trees and flowers and brooksZ
Which do remember me of where I dweltY
Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books afO
Come as of yore upon me and can meltY
My heart with recognition of their looksZ
And even at moments I could think I seeO
Some living thing to love but none like thee agA2
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VIIIO
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Here are the Alpine landscapes which createB2
A fund for contemplation to admireC2
Is a brief feeling of a trivial dateB2
But something worthier do such scenes inspireC2
Here to be lonely is not desolateD2
For much I view which I could most desireU
And above all a Lake I can beholdS
Lovelier not dearer than our own of oldS
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IXO
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Oh that thou wert but with me but I growN
The fool of my own wishes and forgetE2
The solitude which I have vaunted soN
Has lost its praise in this but one regretE2
There may be others which I less may showN
I am not of the plaintive mood and yetE2
I feel an ebb in my philosophyO
And the tide rising in my altered eye ahG
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XO
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I did remind thee of our own dear LakeF2
By the old Hall which may be mine no moreJ
Leman's is fair but think not I forsakeF2
The sweet remembrance of a dearer shoreJ
Sad havoc Time must with my memory makeF2
Ere that or thou can fade these eyes beforeJ
Though like all things which I have loved they areG2
Resigned for ever or divided farG2
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XIO
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The world is all before me I but askH2
Of Nature that with which she will complyO
It is but in her Summer's sun to baskH2
To mingle with the quiet of her skyO
To see her gentle face without a maskH2
And never gaze on it with apathyO
She was my early friend and now shall beO
My sister till I look again on theeO
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XIIO
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I can reduce all feelings but this oneI2
And that I would not for at length I seeO
Such scenes as those wherein my life begunI2
The earliest even the only paths for me aiO
Had I but sooner learnt the crowd to shunI2
I had been better than I now can beO
The Passions which have torn me would have sleptJ2
I had not suffered and thou hadst not weptJ2
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XIIIO
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With false Ambition what had I to doK2
Little with Love and least of all with FameB
And yet they came unsought and with me grewK2
And made me all which they can make a NameB
Yet this was not the end I did pursueK2
Surely I once beheld a nobler aimB
But all is over I am one the moreJ
To baffled millions which have gone beforeJ
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XIVO
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And for the future this world's future may ajL2
From me demand but little of my careV
I have outlived myself by many a day akH2
Having survived so many things that wereU
My years have been no slumber but the preyQ
Of ceaseless vigils for I had the shareV
Of life which might have filled a centuryO
Before its fourth in time had passed me byO
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XVO
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And for the remnant which may be to come alM2
I am content and for the past I feelN2
Not thankless for within the crowded sumO2
Of struggles Happiness at times would stealN2
And for the present I would not benumbO2
My feelings farther Nor shall I concealN2
That with all this I still can look aroundP2
And worship Nature with a thought profoundP2
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XVIO
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For thee my own sweet sister in thy heartQ2
I know myself secure as thou in mineC
We were and are I am even as thou art amO2
Beings who ne'er each other can resignC
It is the same together or apartQ2
From Life's commencement to its slow declineC
We are entwined let Death come slow or fast anR2
The tie which bound the first endures the lastE
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First published Letters and Journals iiA

George Gordon Byron



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