To M. S. G. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| A | |
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| When I dream that you love me you'll surely forgive | B |
| Extend not your anger to sleep | C |
| For in visions alone your affection can live | D |
| I rise and it leaves me to weep | C |
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| Then Morpheus envelop my faculties fast | E |
| Shed o'er me your languor benign | F |
| Should the dream of to night but resemble the last | E |
| What rapture celestial is mine | F |
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| They tell us that slumber the sister of death | G |
| Mortality's emblem is given | H |
| To fate how I long to resign my frail breath | G |
| If this be a foretaste of Heaven | H |
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| Ah frown not sweet Lady unbend your soft brow | I |
| Nor deem me too happy in this | J |
| If I sin in my dream I atone for it now | I |
| Thus doom'd but to gaze upon bliss | J |
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| Though in visions sweet Lady perhaps you may smile | K |
| Oh think not my penance deficient | L |
| When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile | K |
| To awake will be torture sufficient | L |
George Gordon Byron
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