Stanzas To Augusta (ii.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFE AGHGHIEIE AJKJKEIEL KEMEMEAEA ENINIEEEE AOPOPGEGE| I | A |
| Though the day of my destiny's over | B |
| And the star of my fate hath declined | C |
| Thy soft heart refused to discover | B |
| The faults which so many could find | C |
| Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted | D |
| It shrunk not to share it with me | E |
| And the love which my spirit hath painted | F |
| It never hath found but in thee | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Then when nature around me is smiling | G |
| The last smile which answers to mine | H |
| I do not believe it beguiling | G |
| Because it reminds me of thine | H |
| And when winds are at war with the ocean | I |
| As the breasts I believed in with me | E |
| If their billows excite an emotion | I |
| It is that they bear me from thee | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Though the rock of my last hope is shiver'd | J |
| And its fragments are sunk in the wave | K |
| Though I feel that my soul is deliver'd | J |
| To pain it shall not be its slave | K |
| There is many a pang to pursue me | E |
| They may crush but they shall not contemn | I |
| They may torture but shall not subdue me | E |
| 'Tis of thee that I think not of them | L |
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| IV | K |
| Though human thou didst not deceive me | E |
| Though woman thou didst not forsake | M |
| Though loved thou forborest to grieve me | E |
| Though slander'd thou never couldst shake | M |
| Though trusted thou didst not disclaim me | E |
| Though parted it was not to fly | A |
| Though watchful 'twas not to defame me | E |
| Nor mute that the world might belie | A |
| - | |
| V | E |
| Yet I blame not the world nor despise it | N |
| Nor the war of the many with one | I |
| If my soul was not fitted to prize it | N |
| 'Twas folly not sooner to shun | I |
| And if dearly that error hath cost me | E |
| And more than I once could foresee | E |
| I have found that whatever it lost me | E |
| It could not deprive me of thee | E |
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| VI | A |
| From the wreck of the past which hath perish'd | O |
| Thus much I at least may recall | P |
| It hath taught me that what I most cherish'd | O |
| Deserved to be dearest of all | P |
| In the desert a fountain is springing | G |
| In the wide waste there still is a tree | E |
| And a bird in the solitude singing | G |
| Which speaks to my spirit of thee | E |
George Gordon Byron
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