To A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LJLJ MNMN OPOP QJQJ RSRS TFTFO had my Fate been join'd with thine | A |
As once this pledge appear'd a token | B |
These follies had not then been mine | A |
For then my peace had not been broken | B |
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To thee these early faults I owe | C |
To thee the wise and old reproving | D |
They know my sins but do not know | C |
'Twas thine to break the bonds of loving | D |
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For once my soul like thine was pure | E |
And all its rising fires could smother | F |
But now thy vows no more endure | E |
Bestow'd by thee upon another | F |
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Perhaps his peace I could destroy | G |
And spoil the blisses that await him | H |
Yet let my Rival smile in joy | G |
For thy dear sake I cannot hate him | H |
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Ah since thy angel form is gone | I |
My heart no more can rest with any | J |
But what it sought in thee alone | K |
Attempts alas to find in many | J |
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Then fare thee well deceitful Maid | L |
'Twere vain and fruitless to regret thee | J |
Nor Hope nor Memory yield their aid | L |
But Pride may teach me to forget thee | J |
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Yet all this giddy waste of years | M |
This tiresome round of palling pleasures | N |
These varied loves these matrons' fears | M |
These thoughtless strains to Passion's measures | N |
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If thou wert mine had all been hush'd | O |
This cheek now pale from early riot | P |
With Passion's hectic ne'er had flush'd | O |
But bloom'd in calm domestic quiet | P |
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Yes once the rural Scene was sweet | Q |
For Nature seem'd to smile before thee | J |
And once my Breast abhorr'd deceit | Q |
For then it beat but to adore thee | J |
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But now I seek for other joys | R |
To think would drive my soul to madness | S |
In thoughtless throngs and empty noise | R |
I conquer half my Bosom's sadness | S |
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Yet even in these a thought will steal | T |
In spite of every vain endeavor | F |
And fiends might pity what I feel | T |
To know that thou art lost for ever | F |
George Gordon Byron
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