Well! Thou Art Happy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QFQF RWell thou art happy and I feel | A |
That I should thus be happy too | B |
For still my heart regards thy weal | A |
Warmly as it was wont to do | B |
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Thy husband's blest and 'twill impart | C |
Some pangs to view his happier lot | D |
But let them pass Oh how my heart | C |
Would hate him if he loved thee not | D |
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When late I saw thy favourite child | E |
I thought my jealous heart would break | F |
But when the unconscious infant smiled | E |
I kiss'd it for its mother's sake | F |
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I kiss'd it and repress'd my sighs | G |
Its father in its face to see | H |
But then it had its mother's eyes | G |
And they were all to love and me | H |
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Mary adieu I must away | I |
While thou art blest I'll not repine | J |
But near thee I can never stay | I |
y heart would soon again be thine | J |
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I deem'd that time I deem'd that pride | K |
Had quench'd at length my boyish flame | L |
Nor knew till seated by thy side | K |
My heart in all save hope the same | L |
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Yet was I calm I knew the time | M |
My breast would thrill before thy look | N |
But now to tremble were a crime | M |
We met and not a nerve was shook | N |
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I saw thee gaze upon my face | O |
Yet meet with no confusion there | P |
One only feeling could'st thou trace | O |
The sullen calmness of despair | P |
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Away away my early dream | Q |
Remembrance never must awake | F |
Oh where is Lethe's fabled stream | Q |
My foolish heart be still or break | F |
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November | R |
George Gordon Byron
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