To Caroline: Oh When Shall The Grave Hide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJKOh when shall the grave hide for ever my sorrow | A |
Oh when shall my soul wing her flight from this clay | B |
The present is hell and the coming to morrow | A |
But brings with new torture the curse of to day | B |
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From my eye flows no tear from my lips flow no curses | C |
I blast not the fiends who have hurl'd me from bliss | D |
For poor is the soul which bewailing rehearses | C |
Its querulous grief when in anguish like this | D |
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Was my eye 'stead of tears with red fury flakes bright'ning | E |
Would my lips breathe a flame which no stream could assuage | F |
On our foes should my glance launch in vengeance its lightning | E |
With transport my tongue give loose to its rage | F |
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But now tears and curses alike unavailing | E |
Would add to the souls of our tyrants delight | G |
Could they view us our sad separation bewailing | E |
Their merciless hearts would rejoice at the sight | G |
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Yet still though we bend with a feign'd resignation | H |
Life beams not for us with one ray that can cheer | I |
Love and hope upon earth bring no more consolation | H |
In the grave is our hope for in life is our fear | I |
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Oh when my adored in the tomb will they place me | J |
Since in life love and friendship for ever are fled | K |
If again in the mansion of death I embrace thee | J |
Perhaps they will leave unmolested the dead | K |
George Gordon Byron
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