To Florence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEFG HIHI FJKL MNMN IOIO PQPQ RSRS TITI UVUW F| Oh Lady when I left the shore | A |
| The distant shore which gave me birth | B |
| I hardly thought to grieve once more | A |
| To quit another spot on earth | B |
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| Yet here amidst this barren isle | C |
| Where panting Nature droops the head | D |
| Where only thou art seen to smile | C |
| I view my parting hour with dread | D |
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| Though far from Albin's craggy shore | A |
| Divided by the dark blue main | E |
| A few brief rolling seasons o'er | F |
| Perchance I view her cliffs again | G |
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| But wheresoe'er I now may roam | H |
| Through scorching clime and varied sea | I |
| Though Time restore me to my home | H |
| I ne'er shall bend mine eyes on thee | I |
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| On thee in whom at once conspire | F |
| All charms which heedless hearts can move | J |
| Whom but to see is to admire | K |
| And oh forgive the word to love | L |
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| Forgive the word in one who ne'er | M |
| With such a word can more offend | N |
| And since thy heart I cannot share | M |
| Believe me what I am thy friend | N |
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| And who so cold as look on thee | I |
| Thou lovely wand'rer and be less | O |
| Nor be what man should ever be | I |
| The friend of Beauty in distress | O |
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| Ah who would think that form had past | P |
| Through Danger's most destructive path | Q |
| Had braved the death wing'd tempest's blast | P |
| And 'scaped a tyrant's fiercer wrath | Q |
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| Lady when I shall view the walls | R |
| Where free Byzantium once arose | S |
| And Stamboul's Oriental halls | R |
| The Turkish tyrants now enclose | S |
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| Though mightiest in the lists of fame | T |
| That glorious city still shall be | I |
| On me 'twill hold a dearer claim | T |
| As spot of thy nativity | I |
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| And though I bid thee now farewell | U |
| When I behold that wondrous scene | V |
| Since where thou art I may not dwell | U |
| 'Twill soothe to be where thou hast been | W |
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| September | F |
George Gordon Byron
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