To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDD EFEFGHFII JKJKLLKMM NONOPPOQQ RQRQSSQAA OTOTJJTUU PCPCVVCOO OMOMUMMVVAnd thou art dead as young and fair | A |
As aught of mortal birth | B |
And form so soft and charms so rare | A |
Too soon return'd to Earth | B |
Though Earth received them in her bed | C |
And o'er the spot the crowd may tread | C |
In carelessness or mirth | B |
There is an eye which could not brook | D |
A moment on that grave to look | D |
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I will not ask where thou liest low | E |
Nor gaze upon the spot | F |
There flowers or weeds at will may grow | E |
So I behold them not | F |
It is enough for me to prove | G |
That what I loved and long must love | H |
Like common earth can rot | F |
To me there needs no stone to tell | I |
'Tis Nothing that I loved so well | I |
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Yet did I love thee to the last | J |
As fervently as thou | K |
Who didst not change through all the past | J |
And cans't not alter now | K |
The love where Death has set his seal | L |
Nor age can chill nor rival steal | L |
Nor falsehood disavow | K |
And what were worse thou canst not see | M |
Or wrong or change or fault in me | M |
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The better days of life were ours | N |
The worst can be but mine | O |
The sun that cheers the storm that lowers | N |
Shall never more be thine | O |
The silence of that dreamless sleep | P |
I envy now too much to weep | P |
Nor need I to repine | O |
That all those charms have pass'd away | Q |
I might have watch'd through long decay | Q |
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The flower in ripen'd bloom unmatch'd | R |
Must fall the earliest prey | Q |
Though by no hand untimely snatch'd | R |
The leaves must drop away | Q |
And yet it were a greater grief | S |
To watch it withering leaf by leaf | S |
Than see it pluck'd to day | Q |
Since earthly eye but ill can bear | A |
To trace the change to foul from fair | A |
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I know not if I could have borne | O |
To see thy beauties fade | T |
The night that followed such a morn | O |
Had worn a deeper shade | T |
Thy day without a cloud hath passed | J |
And thou wert lovely to the last | J |
Extinguish'd not decay'd | T |
As stars that shoot along the sky | U |
Shine brightest as they fall from high | U |
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As once I wept if I could weep | P |
My tears might well be shed | C |
To think I was not near to keep | P |
One vigil o'er thy bed | C |
To gaze how fondly on thy face | V |
To fold thee in a faint embrace | V |
Uphold thy drooping head | C |
And show that love however vain | O |
Nor thou nor I can feel again | O |
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Yet how much less it were to gain | O |
Though thou hast left me free | M |
The loveliest things that still remain | O |
Than thus remember thee | M |
The all of thine that cannot die | U |
Through dark and dread Eternity | M |
Returns again to me | M |
And more thy buried love endears | V |
Than aught except its living years | V |
George Gordon Byron
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