Stanzas To Augusta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IBIB JKJL MNMO PMQM GRGR STUT GMGMWhen all around grew drear and dark | A |
And reason half withheld her ray | B |
And hope but shed a dying spark | A |
Which more misled my lonely way | B |
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In that deep midnight of the mind | C |
And that internal strife of heart | D |
When dreading to be deemed too kind | C |
The weak despair the cold depart | D |
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When fortune changed and love fled far | E |
And hatred's shafts flew thick and fast | F |
Thou wert the solitary star | E |
Which rose and set not to the last | F |
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Oh blest be thine unbroken light | G |
That watched me as a seraph's eye | H |
And stood between me and the night | G |
For ever shining sweetly nigh | H |
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And when the cloud upon us came | I |
Which strove to blacken o'er thy ray | B |
Then purer spread its gentle flame | I |
And dashed the darkness all away | B |
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Still may thy spirit dwell on mine | J |
And teach it what to brave or brook | K |
There's more in one soft word of thine | J |
Than in the world's defied rebuke | L |
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Thou stood'st as stands a lovely tree | M |
That still unbroke though gently bent | N |
Still waves with fond fidelity | M |
Its boughs above a monument | O |
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The winds might rend the skies might pour | P |
But there thou wert and still wouldst be | M |
Devoted in the stormiest hour | Q |
To shed thy weeping leaves o'er me | M |
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But thou and thine shall know no blight | G |
Whatever fate on me may fall | R |
For heaven in sunshine will requite | G |
The kind and thee the most of all | R |
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Then let the ties of baffled love | S |
Be broken thine will never break | T |
Thy heart can feel but will not move | U |
Thy soul though soft will never shake | T |
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And these when all was lost beside | G |
Were found and still are fixed in thee | M |
And bearing still a breast so tried | G |
Earth is no desert e'en to me | M |
George Gordon Byron
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