To Anne: Oh, Say Not, Sweet Anne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD EBEB AFAFOh say not sweet Anne that the Fates have decreed | A |
The heart which adores you should wish to dissever | B |
Such Fates were to me most unkind ones indeed | A |
To bear me from love and from beauty for ever | B |
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Your frowns lovely girl are the Fates which alone | C |
Could bid me from fond admiration refrain | D |
By these every hope every wish were o'erthrown | D |
Till smiles should restore me to rapture again | D |
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As the ivy and oak in the forest entwined | E |
The rage of the tempest united must weather | B |
My love and my life were by nature design'd | E |
To flourish alike or to perish together | B |
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Then say not sweet Anne that the Fates have decreed | A |
Your lover should bid you a lasting adieu | F |
Till Fate can ordain that his bosom shall bleed | A |
His soul his existence are centred in you | F |
George Gordon Byron
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