Lines Addressed To A Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIEI JKJK LMLM NKNK OPOP HQHR| Doubtless sweet girl the hissing lead | A |
| Wafting destruction o'er thy charms | B |
| And hurtling o'er thy lovely head | A |
| Has fill'd that breast with fond alarms | B |
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| Surely some envious demon's force | C |
| Vex'd to behold such beauty here | D |
| Impell'd the bullet's viewless course | C |
| Diverted from its first career | E |
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| Yes in that nearly fatal hour | F |
| The ball obey'd some hell born guide | G |
| But Heaven with interposing power | F |
| In pity turn'd the death aside | G |
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| Yet as perchance one trembling tear | H |
| Upon that thrilling bosom fell | I |
| Which I th' unconscious cause of fear | E |
| Extracted fromn its glistening cell | I |
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| Say what dire penance can atone | J |
| For such an outrage done to thee | K |
| Arraign'd before thy beauty's throne | J |
| What punishment wilt thou decree | K |
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| Might I perform the judge's part | L |
| The sentence I should scarce deplore | M |
| It only would restore a heart | L |
| Which but belong'd to thee before | M |
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| The least atonement I can make | N |
| Is to become no longer free | K |
| Henceforth I breathe but for thy sake | N |
| Thou shalt be all in all to me | K |
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| But thou perhaps may'st now reject | O |
| Such expiation of my guilt | P |
| Come then some other mode elect | O |
| Let it be death or what thou wilt | P |
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| Choose then relentless and I swear | H |
| Nought shall thy dread decree prevent | Q |
| Yet hold one little word forbear | H |
| Let it be aught but banishment | R |
George Gordon Byron
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