To Caroline: Oh When Shall The Grave Hide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK| Oh 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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