Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBD EFEF BGBG BHBI| If in the month of dark December | A |
| Leander who was nightly wont | B |
| What maid will not the tale remember | A |
| To cross thy stream broad Hellespont | B |
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| If when the wintry tempest roar'd | B |
| He sped to Hero nothing loth | C |
| And thus of old thy current pour'd | B |
| Fair Venus how I pity both | D |
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| For me degenerate modern wretch | E |
| Though in the genial month of May | F |
| My dripping limbs I faintly stretch | E |
| And think I've done a feat today | F |
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| But since he cross'd the rapid tide | B |
| According to the doubtful story | G |
| To woo and Lord knows what beside | B |
| And swam for Love as I for Glory | G |
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| 'Twere hard to say who fared the best | B |
| Sad mortals thus the gods still plague you | H |
| He lost his labour I my jest | B |
| For he was drown'd and I've the ague | I |
George Gordon Byron
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