The First Kiss Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DBDC EBEC FCFC GCGC HCHC ICIC| Away with your fictions of flimsy romance | A |
| Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove | B |
| Give me the mild beam of the soul breathing glance | A |
| Or the rapture which dwells on the first kiss of love | C |
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| Ye rhymers whose bosoms with phantasy glow | D |
| Whose pastoral passions are made for the grove | B |
| From what blest inpiration your sonnets would flow | D |
| Could you ever have tasted the first kiss of love | C |
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| If Apollo should e'er his assistance refuse | E |
| Or the Nine be desposed from your service to rove | B |
| Invoke them no more bid adieu to the muse | E |
| and try the effect of the first kiss of love | C |
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| I hate you ye cold compositions of art | F |
| Though prudes may condemn me and bigots reprove | C |
| I court the effusions that spring from the heart | F |
| Which throbes with delight to the first kiss of love | C |
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| Your shepherds your flocks those fantastical themes | G |
| Perhapes may amuse yet they never can move | C |
| Arcadia displays but a region of dreams | G |
| What are visions like these to the first kiss of love | C |
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| Oh cease to affirm that man since his birth | H |
| From Adam till now has with wretchedness strove | C |
| Some portion of paradise still is on earth | H |
| And Eden revives in the first kiss of love | C |
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| When age chills the blood when our pleasures are past | I |
| For years fleet away with the wings of the dove | C |
| The dearest rememberance will still be the last | I |
| Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love | C |
George Gordon Byron
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