To Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEFD GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNO MCCM ICCI IMMI PQRP MEES CTTC CRRC UTTU VVCCVVWXCCCCA | |
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Rack'd by the flames of jealous rage | B |
By all her torments deeply curst | C |
Of hell born passions far the worst | C |
What hope my pangs can now assuage | B |
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I tore me from thy circling arms | D |
To madness fir'd by doubts and fears | E |
Heedless of thy suspicious tears | F |
Nor feeling for thy feign'd alarms | D |
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Resigning every thought of bliss | G |
Forever from your love I go | H |
Reckless of all the tears that flow | H |
Disdaining thy polluted kiss | G |
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No more that bosom heaves for me | I |
On it another seeks repose | J |
Another riot's on its snows | J |
Our bonds are broken both are free | I |
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No more with mutual love we burn | K |
No more the genial couch we bless | L |
Dissolving in the fond caress | L |
Our love o'erthrown will ne'er return | K |
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Though love than ours could ne'er be truer | M |
Yet flames too fierce themselves destroy | N |
Embraces oft repeated cloy | N |
Ours came too frequent to endure | O |
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You quickly sought a second lover | M |
And I too proud to share a heart | C |
Where once I held the whole not part | C |
Another mistress must discover | M |
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Though not the first one who hast blest me | I |
Yet I will own you was the dearest | C |
The one unto my bosom nearest | C |
So I conceiv'd when I possest thee | I |
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Even now I cannot well forget thee | I |
And though no more in folds of pleasure | M |
Kiss follows kiss in countless measure | M |
I hope you sometimes will regret me | I |
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And smile to think how oft were done | P |
What prudes declare a sin to act is | Q |
And never but in darkness practice | R |
Fearing to trust the tell tale sun | P |
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And wisely therefore night prefer | M |
Whose dusky mantle veils their fears | E |
Of this and that of eyes and ears | E |
Affording shades to those that err | S |
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Now by my foul 'tis most delight | C |
To view each other panting dying | T |
In love's extatic posture lying | T |
Grateful to feeling as to sight | C |
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And had the glaring God of Day | C |
As formerly of Mars and Venus | R |
Divulg'd the joys which pass'd between us | R |
Regardless of his peeping ray | C |
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Of love admiring such a sample | U |
The Gods and Goddesses descending | T |
Had never fancied us offending | T |
But wisely followed our example | U |
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When to their airy hall my father's voice | V |
Shall call my spirit joyful in their choice | V |
When pois'd upon the gale my form shall ride | C |
Or dark in mist descend the mountain's side | C |
Oh may my shade behold no sculptur'd urns | V |
To mark the spot where earth to earth returns | V |
No lengthen'd scroll of virtue and renown | W |
My epitaph shall be my name alone | X |
If that with honour fails to crown my clay | C |
Oh may no other fame my deeds repay | C |
That only that shall single out the shot | C |
By that remember'd or fore'er forgot | C |
George Gordon Byron
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