To The Sighing Strephon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HFFF IJ K LBL MNFN OPQP RFBF SFFF| Your pardon my friend if my rhymes did offend | A |
| Your pardon a thousand times o'er | B |
| From friendship I strove your pangs to remove | C |
| But I swear I will do so no more | D |
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| Since your beautiful maid your flame has repaid | E |
| No more I your folly regret | F |
| She's now most divine and I bow at the shrine | G |
| Of this quickly reformed coquette | F |
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| Yet still I must own I should never have known | H |
| From your verses what else she deserved | F |
| Your pain seem'd so great I pitied your fate | F |
| As your fair was so devilish reserved | F |
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| Since the baim br'eathing kiss of this magical miss | I |
| Can such wonderful transports produce | J |
| Since the 'world you forget when your lips once have met ' | - |
| My counsel will get but abuse You Say | K |
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| 'When I rove I know nothing of love ' | - |
| 'Tis true 'I am given to range | L |
| If I rightly remember I've loved a good number | B |
| Yet there's pleasure at least in a change | L |
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| I will not advance by the rules of romance | M |
| To humour a whimsical fair | N |
| Though a smile may delight yet a frown won't affright | F |
| Or drlve me to dreadful despair | N |
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| While my blood is thus warm I ne'er shall reform | O |
| To mix in the Platonists' school | P |
| Of this l am sure was my passion so pure | Q |
| Thy mistress would think me a fool | P |
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| And if I should shun every woman for one | R |
| Whose image must fill my whole breast | F |
| Whom I must prefer and sigh but for her | B |
| What an insult 'twould be to the rest | F |
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| ow Strephon good bye I cannot deny | S |
| Your passion appears most absurd | F |
| Such love as you plead is pure love indeed | F |
| For it only consists in the word | F |
George Gordon Byron
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