To Lesbia! [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC CJCJ KLKL CLCL CFCF| A | |
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| LESBIA since far from you I've rang'd | B |
| Our souls with fond affection glow not | C |
| You say 'tis I not you have chang'd | B |
| I'd tell you why but yet I know not | C |
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| Your polish'd brow no cares have crost | C |
| And Lesbia we are not much older | D |
| Since trembling first my heart I lost | C |
| Or told my love with hope grown bolder | D |
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| Sixteen was then our utmost age | E |
| Two years have lingering pass'd away love | F |
| And now new thoughts our minds engage | E |
| At least I feel disposed to stray love | F |
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| Tis I that am alone to blame | G |
| I that am guilty of love's treason | H |
| Since your sweet breast is still the same | G |
| Caprice must be my only reason | H |
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| I do not love suspect your truth | I |
| With jealous doubt my bosom heaves not | C |
| Warm was the passion of my youth | I |
| One trace of dark deceit it leaves not | C |
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| No no my flame was not pretended | C |
| For oh I lov'd you most sincerely | J |
| And though our dream at last is ended | C |
| My bosom still esteems you dearly | J |
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| No more we meet in yonder bowers | K |
| Absence has made me prone to roving | L |
| But older firmer hearts than ours | K |
| Have found monotony in loving | L |
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| Your cheek's soft bloom is unimpair'd | C |
| New beauties still are daily bright'ning | L |
| Your eye for conquest beams prepar'd | C |
| The forge of love's resistless lightning | L |
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| Arm'd thus to make their bosoms bleed | C |
| Many will throng to sigh like me love | F |
| More constant they may prove indeed | C |
| Fonder alas they ne'er can be love | F |
George Gordon Byron
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