Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH| They say that Hope is happiness | A |
| But genuine Love must prize the past | B |
| And Memory wakes the thoughts that bless | C |
| They rose the first they set the last | B |
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| And all that Memory loves the most | D |
| Was once our only Hope to be | E |
| And all that Hope adored and lost | F |
| Hath melted into Memory | E |
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| Alas it is delusion all | G |
| The future cheats us from afar | H |
| Nor can we be what we recall | G |
| Nor dare we think on what we are | H |
George Gordon Byron
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