To Marion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGDDHHIJDD DDKKLLFBMMNNKKDDLL OOMMLLLLDDPQFFLLLL| 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 weedy timid tears' | D |
| Or bends the languid eyelid down | E |
| But shuns the cold forbidding frown | E |
| Then resume thy former fire | F |
| Some will love and all admire | G |
| While that icy aspect chills us | D |
| Nought but cool indifference thrills us | D |
| Wou'dst thou wandering hearts beguile | H |
| Smile at least or seem to smile | H |
| Eyes like thine were never meant | I |
| To hide their orbs in dark restraint | J |
| Spite of all thou fain wouldst say | D |
| Still in truant beams they play | D |
| Thy lips but here my modest Muse | D |
| Her impulse chaste must needs refuse | D |
| She blushes curt'sies frowns in short she | K |
| Dreads lest the subject should transport me | K |
| And flying off in search of reason | L |
| Brings prudence back in proper season | L |
| All I shall therefore say whate'er | F |
| I think is neither here nor there | B |
| Is that such lips of looks endearing | M |
| Were form'd for better things than sneering | M |
| Of soothing compliments divested | N |
| Advice at least's disinterested | N |
| Such is my artless song to thee | K |
| From all the flow of flattery free | K |
| Counsel like mine is as a brother's | D |
| My heart is given to some others | D |
| That is to say unskill'd to cozen | L |
| It shares itself among a dozen | L |
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| Marion adieu oh pr'ythee slight not | O |
| This warning though it may delight not | O |
| And lest my precepts be displeasing | M |
| To those who think remonstrance teasing | M |
| At once I'll tell thee our opinion | L |
| Concerning woman's soft dominion | L |
| Howe'er we gaze with admiration | L |
| On eyes of blue or lips carnation | L |
| Howe'er the flowing locks attract us | D |
| Howe'er those beauties may distract us | D |
| Still fickle we are prone to rove | P |
| These cannot fix our souls to love | Q |
| It is not too severe a stricture | F |
| To say they form a pretty picture | F |
| But wouldst thou see the secret chain | L |
| Which binds us in your humble train | L |
| To hail you queens of all creation | L |
| Know in a word 'tis ANIMATION | L |
George Gordon Byron
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