Stanzas To A Lady, On Leaving England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EFGGHD IJKLDD MNOOHD PPOODD QRSS D JJTTDD FESSDD JJUVDD WWXXHD WWYYCD| 'Tis done and shivering in the gale | A |
| The bark unfurls her snowy sail | A |
| And whistling o'er the bending mast | B |
| Loud sings on high the fresh'ning blast | B |
| And I must from this land be gone | C |
| Because I cannot love but one | D |
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| But could I be what I have been | E |
| And could I see what I have seen | F |
| Could I repose upon the breast | G |
| Which once my warmest wishes blest | G |
| I should not seek another zone | H |
| Because I cannot love but one | D |
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| 'Tis long since I beheld that eye | I |
| Which gave me bliss or misery | J |
| And I have striven but in vain | K |
| Never to think of it again | L |
| For though I fly from Albion | D |
| I still can only love but one | D |
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| As some lone bird without a mate | M |
| My weary heart is desolate | N |
| I look around and cannot trace | O |
| One friendly smile or welcome face | O |
| And ev'n in crowds am still alone | H |
| Because I cannot love but one | D |
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| And I will cross the whitening foam | P |
| And I will seek a foreign home | P |
| Till I forget a false fair face | O |
| I ne'er shall find a resting place | O |
| My own dark thoughts I cannot shun | D |
| But ever love and love but one | D |
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| The poorest veriest wretch on earth | Q |
| Still finds some hospitable hearth | R |
| Where Friendship's or Love's softer glow | S |
| May smile in joy or soothe in woe | S |
| But friend or leman I have none ' | - |
| Because I cannot love but one | D |
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| I go but wheresoe'er I flee | J |
| There's not an eye will weep for me | J |
| There's not a kind congenial heart | T |
| Where I can claim the meanest part | T |
| Nor thou who hast my hopes undone | D |
| Wilt sigh although I love but one | D |
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| To think of every early scene | F |
| Of what we are and what we've been | E |
| Would whelm some softer hearts with woe | S |
| But mine alas has stood the blow | S |
| Yet still beats on as it begun | D |
| And never truly loves but one | D |
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| And who that dear lov'd one may be | J |
| Is not for vulgar eyes to see | J |
| And why that early love was cross'd | U |
| Thou know'st the best I feel the most | V |
| But few that dwell beneath the sun | D |
| Have loved so long and loved but one | D |
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| I've tried another's fetters too | W |
| With charms perchance as fair to view | W |
| And I would fain have loved as well | X |
| But some unconquerable spell | X |
| Forbade my bleeding breast to own | H |
| A kindred care for aught but one | D |
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| 'Twould soothe to take one lingering view | W |
| And bless thee in my last adieu | W |
| Yet wish I not those eyes to weep | Y |
| For him that wanders o'er the deep | Y |
| His home his hope his youth are gone | C |
| Yet still he loves and loves but one | D |
George Gordon Byron
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