Stanzas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAAABCCCCDDC EEEFAAAFAAACAAC DDDDGGGDCCCDHHD AAAICCCICCCJKKJ DDDLEEMLNOOPQQP RSSDCCCDTTTSAAS| Could Love for ever | A |
| Run like a river | A |
| And Time's endeavour | A |
| Be tried in vain | B |
| No other pleasure | A |
| With this could measure | A |
| And like a treasure | A |
| We'd hug the chain | B |
| But since our sighing | C |
| Ends not in dying | C |
| And form 'd for flying | C |
| Love plumes his wing | C |
| Then for this reason | D |
| Let's love a season | D |
| But let that season be only Spring | C |
| - | |
| When lovers parted | E |
| Feel broken hearted | E |
| And all hopes thwarted | E |
| Expect to die | F |
| A few years older | A |
| Ah how much colder | A |
| They might behold her | A |
| For whom they sigh | F |
| When link 'd together | A |
| In every weather | A |
| They pluck Love's feather | A |
| From out his wing | C |
| He'll stay for ever | A |
| But sadly shiver | A |
| Without his plumage when past the Spring | C |
| - | |
| Like chiefs of Faction | D |
| His life is action | D |
| A formal paction | D |
| That curbs his reign | D |
| Obscures his glory | G |
| Despot no more he | G |
| Such territory | G |
| Quits with disdain | D |
| Still still advancing | C |
| With banners glancing | C |
| His power enhancing | C |
| He must move on | D |
| Repose but cloys him | H |
| Retreat destroys him | H |
| Love brooks not a degraded throne | D |
| - | |
| Wait not fond lover | A |
| Till years are over | A |
| And then recover | A |
| As from a dream | I |
| While each bewailing | C |
| The other's failing | C |
| With wrath and railing | C |
| All hideous seem | I |
| While first decreasing | C |
| Yet not quite ceasing | C |
| Wait not till teasing | C |
| All passion blight | J |
| If once diminish'd | K |
| Love's reign is finish'd | K |
| Then part in friendship and hid good night | J |
| - | |
| So shall Affection | D |
| To recollection | D |
| The dear connexion | D |
| Bring back with joy | L |
| You had not waited | E |
| Till tired or hated | E |
| Your passions sated | M |
| Began to cloy | L |
| Your last embraces | N |
| Leave no cold traces | O |
| The same fond faces | O |
| As through the past | P |
| And eyes the mirrors | Q |
| Of your sweet errors | Q |
| Reflect but rapture not least though last | P |
| - | |
| True separations | R |
| Ask more than patience | S |
| What desperations | S |
| From such have risen | D |
| But yet remaining | C |
| What is't but chaining | C |
| Hearts which once waning | C |
| Beat 'gainst their prison | D |
| Time can but cloy love | T |
| And use destroy love | T |
| The winged boy Love | T |
| Is but for boys | S |
| You'll find it torture | A |
| Though sharper shorter | A |
| To wean and not wear out your joys | S |
George Gordon Byron
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