The Cornelian. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHJ KHKH LMLM JHJH NHOH| A | |
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| No specious splendour of this stone | B |
| Endears it to my memory ever | C |
| With lustre only once it shone | B |
| And blushes modest as the giver | C |
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| Some who can sneer at friendship's ties | D |
| Have for my weakness oft reprov'd me | E |
| Yet still the simple gift I prize | D |
| For I am sure the giver lov'd me | E |
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| He offer'd it with downcast look | F |
| As fearful that I might refuse it | G |
| I told him when the gift I took | F |
| My only fear should be to lose it | G |
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| This pledge attentively I view'd | H |
| And sparkling as I held it near | I |
| Methought one drop the stone bedew'd | H |
| And ever since I've lov'd a tear | J |
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| Still to adorn his humble youth | K |
| Nor wealth nor birth their treasures yield | H |
| But he who seeks the flowers of truth | K |
| Must quit the garden for the field | H |
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| 'Tis not the plant uprear'd in sloth | L |
| Which beauty shews and sheds perfume | M |
| The flowers which yield the most of both | L |
| In Nature's wild luxuriance bloom | M |
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| Had Fortune aided Nature's care | J |
| For once forgetting to be blind | H |
| His would have been an ample share | J |
| If well proportioned to his mind | H |
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| But had the Goddess clearly seen | N |
| His form had fix'd her fickle breast | H |
| Her countless hoards would his have been | O |
| And none remain'd to give the rest | H |
George Gordon Byron
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