The Tear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDE DDCFFE GGCHHE IICJJE KLCGGE MMCNNE OOCPQE RRCSTE QQCUUE QQCQQE QQVWWE| When Friendship or Love | A |
| Our sympathies move | B |
| When Truth in a glance should appear | C |
| The lips may beguile | D |
| With a dimple or smile | D |
| But the test of affection's a Tear | E |
| - | |
| Too oft is a smile | D |
| But the hypocrite's wile | D |
| To mask detestation or fear | C |
| Give me the soft sigh | F |
| Whilst the soultelling eye | F |
| Is dimm'd for a time with a Tear | E |
| - | |
| Mild Charity's glow | G |
| To us mortals below | G |
| Shows the soul from barbarity clear | C |
| Compassion will melt | H |
| Where this virtue is felt | H |
| And its dew is diffused in a Tear | E |
| - | |
| The man doom'd to sail | I |
| With the blast of the gale | I |
| Through billows Atlantic to steer | C |
| As he bends o'er the wave | J |
| Which may soon be his grave | J |
| The green sparkles bright with a Tear | E |
| - | |
| The Soldier braves death | K |
| For a fanciful wreath | L |
| In Glory's romantic career | C |
| But he raises the foe | G |
| When in battle laid low | G |
| And bathes every wound with a Tear | E |
| - | |
| If with high bounding pride | M |
| He return to his bride | M |
| Renouncing the gore crimson'd spear | C |
| All his toils are repaid | N |
| When embracing the maid | N |
| From her eyelid he kisses the Tear | E |
| - | |
| Sweet scene of my youth | O |
| Seat of Friendship and Truth | O |
| Where Love chas'd each fast fleeting year | C |
| Loth to leave thee I mourn'd | P |
| For a last look I turn'd | Q |
| But thy spire was scarce seen through a Tear | E |
| - | |
| Though my vows I can pour | R |
| To my Mary no more | R |
| My Mary to Love once so dear | C |
| In the shade of her bow'r | S |
| I remember the hour | T |
| She rewarded those vows with a Tear | E |
| - | |
| By another possest | Q |
| May she live ever blest | Q |
| Her name still my heart must revere | C |
| With a sigh I resign | U |
| What I once thought was mine | U |
| And forgive her deceit with a Tear | E |
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| Ye friends of my heart | Q |
| Ere from you I depart | Q |
| This hope to my breast is most near | C |
| If again we shall meet | Q |
| In this rural retreat | Q |
| May we meet as we part with a Tear | E |
| - | |
| When my soul wings her flight | Q |
| To the regions of night | Q |
| And my corse shall recline on its bier | V |
| As ye pass by the tomb | W |
| Where my ashes consume | W |
| Oh moisten their dust with a Tear | E |
George Gordon Byron
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