To Caroline. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG EHEH IJIJ KLKL MNMN ONONA | |
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When I hear you express an affection so warm | B |
Ne'er think my belov'd that I do not believe | C |
For your lip would the soul of suspicion disarm | D |
And your eye beams a ray which can never deceive | C |
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Yet still this fond bosom regrets while adoring | E |
That love like the leaf must fall into the sear | F |
That Age will come on when Remembrance deploring | E |
Contemplates the scenes of her youth with a tear | G |
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That the time must arrive when no longer retaining | E |
Their auburn those locks must wave thin to the breeze | H |
When a few silver hairs of those tresses remaining | E |
Prove nature a prey to decay and disease | H |
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Tis this my belov'd which spreads gloom o'er my features | I |
Though I ne'er shall presume to arraign the decree | J |
Which God has proclaim'd as the fate of his creatures | I |
In the death which one day will deprive you of me | J |
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Mistake not sweet sceptic the cause of emotion | K |
No doubt can the mind of your lover invade | L |
He worships each look with such faithful devotion | K |
A smile can enchant or a tear can dissuade | L |
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But as death my belov'd soon or late shall o'ertake us | M |
And our breasts which alive with such sympathy glow | N |
Will sleep in the grave till the blast shall awake us | M |
When calling the dead in Earth's bosom laid low | N |
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Oh then let us drain while we may draughts of pleasure | O |
Which from passion like ours must unceasingly flow | N |
Let us pass round the cup of Love's bliss in full measure | O |
And quaff the contents as our nectar below | N |
George Gordon Byron
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