If Sometimes In The Haunts Of Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDD EFEFGAHA BIBIJFJF BABKBJBJ AAAAAFAF| If sometimes in the haunts of men | A |
| Thine image from my breast may fade | B |
| The lonely hour presents again | A |
| The semblance of thy gentle shade | B |
| And now that sad and silent hour | C |
| Thus much of thee can still restore | D |
| And sorrow unobserved may pour | D |
| The plaint she dare not speak before | D |
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| Oh pardon that in crowds awhile | E |
| I waste one thought I owe to thee | F |
| And self condemn'd appear to smile | E |
| Unfaithful to thy memory | F |
| Nor deem that memory less dear | G |
| That then I seem not to repine | A |
| I would not fools should overhear | H |
| One sigh that should be wholly thine | A |
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| If not the goblet pass unquaff'd | B |
| It is not drain'd to banish care | I |
| The cup must hold a deadlier draught | B |
| That brings a Lethe for despair | I |
| And could Oblivion set my soul | J |
| From all her troubled visions free | F |
| I'd dash to earth the sweetest bowl | J |
| That drown'd a single thought of thee | F |
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| For wert thou vanish'd from my mind | B |
| Where could my vacant bosom turn | A |
| And who would then remain behind | B |
| To honour thine abandon'd Um | K |
| No no it is my sorrow's pride | B |
| That last dear duty to fulfil | J |
| Though all the world forget beside | B |
| 'Tis meet that I remember still | J |
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| For well I know that such had been | A |
| Thy gentle care for him who now | A |
| Unmourn'd shall quit this mortal scene | A |
| Where none regarded him but thou | A |
| And oh I feel in that was given | A |
| A blessing never meant for me | F |
| Thou wert too like a dream of Heaven | A |
| For earthly Love to merit thee | F |
George Gordon Byron
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