To The Countess Of Blessington Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI GJGJ| You have ask'd for a verse the request | A |
| In a rhymer 'twere strange to deny | B |
| But my Hippocrene was but my breast | A |
| And my feelings its fountain are dry | B |
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| Were I now as I was I had sung | C |
| What Lawrence has painted so well | D |
| But the strain would expire on my tongue | C |
| And the theme is too soft for my shell | D |
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| I am ashes where once I was fire | E |
| And the bard in my bosom is dead | F |
| What I loved I now merely admire | G |
| And my heart is as grey as my head | F |
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| My life is not dated by years | H |
| There are moments which act as plough | I |
| And there is not a furrow appears | H |
| But is deep in my soul as my brow | I |
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| Let the young and the brilliant aspire | G |
| To sing what I gaze on in vain | J |
| For sorrow has torn from my lyre | G |
| The string which was worthy the strain | J |
George Gordon Byron
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