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