To Anne: Oh, Say Not, Sweet Anne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD EBEB AFAF| Oh 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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