To Marion. [1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJKLMM NNOOFFGBPPQQOORRFF SSPPFFFFIITUGGFFFF| MARION why that pensive brow | A |
| What disgust to life hast thou | A |
| Change that discontented air | B |
| Frowns become not one so fair | B |
| 'Tis not Love disturbs thy rest | C |
| Love's a stranger to thy breast | C |
| He in dimpling smiles appears | D |
| Or mourns in sweetly timid tears | E |
| Or bends the languid eyelid down | F |
| But shuns the cold forbidding 'frown' | F |
| Then resume thy former fire | G |
| Some will love and all admire | H |
| While that icy aspect chills us | I |
| Nought but cool Indiff'rence thrills us | I |
| Would'st thou wand'ring hearts beguile | J |
| Smile at least or seem to smile | J |
| Eyes like thine were never meant | K |
| To hide their orbs in dark restraint | L |
| Spite of all thou fain wouldst say | M |
| Still in truant beams they play | M |
| Thy lips but here my modest Muse | N |
| Her impulse chaste must needs refuse | N |
| She blushes curtsies frowns in short She | O |
| Dreads lest the Subject should transport me | O |
| And flying off in search of Reason | F |
| Brings Prudence back in proper season | F |
| All I shall therefore say whate'er | G |
| I think is neither here nor there | B |
| Is that such lips of looks endearing | P |
| Were form'd for better things than sneering | P |
| Of soothing compliments divested | Q |
| Advice at least's disinterested | Q |
| Such is my artless song to thee | O |
| From all the flow of Flatt'ry free | O |
| Counsel like mine is as a brother's | R |
| My heart is given to some others | R |
| That is to say unskill'd to cozen | F |
| It shares itself among a dozen | F |
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| Marion adieu oh pr'ythee slight not | S |
| This warning though it may delight not | S |
| And lest my precepts be displeasing | P |
| To those who think remonstrance teazing | P |
| At once I'll tell thee our opinion | F |
| Concerning Woman's soft Dominion | F |
| Howe'er we gaze with admiration | F |
| On eyes of blue or lips carnation | F |
| Howe'er the flowing locks attract us | I |
| Howe'er those beauties may distract us | I |
| Still fickle we are prone to rove | T |
| These cannot fix our souls to love | U |
| It is not too severe a stricture | G |
| To say they form a pretty picture | G |
| But would'st thou see the secret chain | F |
| Which binds us in your humble train | F |
| To hail you Queens of all Creation | F |
| Know in a word 'tis Animation | F |
George Gordon Byron
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