Love's Last Adieu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDD EDED FDFD DDDD GDGD HDHD DDDD IDID DDDD| The roses of Love glad the garden of life | A |
| Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew | B |
| Till Time crops the leaves with unmerciful knife | A |
| Or prunes them for ever in Love's last adieu | B |
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| In vain with endearments we soothe the sad heart | C |
| In vain do we vow for an age to be true | B |
| The chance of an hour may command us to part | C |
| Or Death disunite us in Love's last adieu | B |
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| Still Hope breathing peace through the grief swollen breast | D |
| Will whisper Our meeting we yet may renew | B |
| With this dream of deceit half our sorrow's represt | D |
| Nor taste we the poison of Love's last adieu | D |
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| Oh mark you yon pair in the sunshine of youth | E |
| Love twin'd round their childhood his flow'rs as they grew | D |
| They flourish awhile in the season of truth | E |
| Till chill'd by the winter of Love's last adieu | D |
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| Sweet lady why thus doth a tear steal its way | F |
| Down a cheek which outrivals thy bosom in hue | D |
| Yet why do I ask to distraction a prey | F |
| Thy reason has perish'd with Love's last adieu | D |
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| Oh who is yon Misanthrope shunning mankind | D |
| From cities to caves of the forest he flew | D |
| There raving he howls his complaint to the wind | D |
| The mountains reverberate Love's last adieu | D |
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| Now Hate rules a heart which in Love's easy chains | G |
| Once Passion's tumultuous blandishments knew | D |
| Despair now inflames the dark tide of his veins | G |
| He ponders in frenzy on Love's last adieu | D |
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| How he envies the wretch with a soul wrapt in steel | H |
| His pleasures are scarce yet his troubles are few | D |
| Who laughs at the pang that he never can feel | H |
| And dreads not the anguish of Love's last adieu | D |
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| Youth flies life decays even hope is o'ercast | D |
| No more with Love's former devotion we sue | D |
| He spreads his young wing he retires with the blast | D |
| The shroud of affection is Love's last adieu | D |
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| In this life of probation for rapture divine | I |
| Astrea declares that some penance is due | D |
| From him who has worshipp'd at Love's gentle shrine | I |
| The atonement is ample in Love's last adieu | D |
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| Who kneels to the God on his altar of light | D |
| Must myrtle and cypress alternately strew | D |
| His myrtle an emblem of purest delight | D |
| His cypress the garland of Love's last adieu | D |
George Gordon Byron
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