The Cornelian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JGJG KLKL IGIG MGNGNo specious splendour of this stone | A |
Endears it to my memory ever | B |
With lustre only once it shone | A |
And blushes modest as the giver | B |
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Some who can sneer at friendship's ties | C |
Have for my weakness oft reproved me | D |
Yet still the simple gift I prize | C |
For I am sure the giver loved me | D |
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He offer'd it with downcast look | E |
As fearful that I ight refuse it | F |
I told him when the gift I took | E |
My only fear should be to lose it | F |
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This pledge attentively I view'd | G |
And sparkling as I held it near | H |
Methought one drop the stone bedew'd | G |
And ever since I've loved a tear | I |
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Still to adorn his humble youth | J |
Nor wealth nor birth their treasures yield | G |
But he who seeks the flowers of truth | J |
Must quit the garden for the field | G |
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'Tis not the plant uprear'd in sloth | K |
Which beauty shows and sheds perfume | L |
The flowers which yield the most of both | K |
In Nature's wild luxuriance bloom | L |
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Had Fortune aided Nature's care | I |
For once forgetting to be blind | G |
His would have been an ample share | I |
If well proportion'd to his mind | G |
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But had the goddess clearly seen | M |
His form had fix'd her fickle breast | G |
Her countless hoards would his have been | N |
And none remain'd to give the rest | G |
George Gordon Byron
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