Euthanasia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEC GHGH IJIJ KLKL GMGM NDOD PJQJ| When Time or soon or late shall bring | A |
| The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead | B |
| Oblivion may thy languid wing | A |
| Wave gently o'er my dying bed | B |
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| No band of friends or heirs be there | C |
| To weep or wish the coming blow | D |
| No maiden with dishevelled hair | C |
| To feel or feign decorous woe | D |
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| But silent let me sink to earth | E |
| With no officious mourners near | F |
| I would not mar one hour of mirth | E |
| Nor startle friendship with a tear | C |
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| Yet Love if Love in such an hour | G |
| Could nobly check its useless sighs | H |
| Might then exert its latest power | G |
| In her who lives and him who dies | H |
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| 'Twere sweet my Psyche to the last | I |
| Thy features still serene to see | J |
| Forgetful of its struggles past | I |
| E en Pain itself should smile on thee | J |
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| But vain the wish for Beauty still | K |
| Will shrink as shrinks the ebbing breath | L |
| And women's tears produced at will | K |
| Deceive in life unman in death | L |
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| Then lonely be my latest hour | G |
| Without regret without a groan | M |
| For thousands Death hath ceas d to lower | G |
| And pain been transient or unknown | M |
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| 'Ay but to die and go ' alas | N |
| Where all have gone and all must go | D |
| To be the nothing that I was | O |
| Ere born to life and living woe | D |
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| Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen | P |
| Count o'er thy days from anguish free | J |
| And know whatever thou hast been | Q |
| 'Tis something better not to be | J |
George Gordon Byron
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