Epistle To A Young Nobleman In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHII JJKKLLMM NOPPQQRRSSTTUUVWXXLL QQYYGGZZJJA2A2 QQB2B2| Hail generous youth whom glory's sacred flame | A |
| Inspires and animates to deeds of fame | A |
| Who feel the noble wish before you die | B |
| To raise the finger of each passer by | B |
| Hail may a future age admiring view | C |
| A Falkland or a Clarendon in you | C |
| But as your blood with dangerous passion boils | D |
| Beware and fly from Venus' silken toils | D |
| Ah let the head protect the weaker heart | E |
| And Wisdom's gis turn on Beauty's dart | E |
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| But if 'tis fix'd that every lord must pair | F |
| And you and Newstead must not want an heir | F |
| Lose not your pains and scour the country round | G |
| To find a treasure that can ne'er be found | G |
| No take the first the town or court affords | H |
| Trick'd out to stock a market for the lords | H |
| By chance perhaps your luckier choice may fall | I |
| On one though wicked not the worst of all | I |
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| One though perhaps as any Maxwell free | J |
| Yet scarce a copy Claribel of thee | J |
| Not very ugly and not very old | K |
| A little pert indeed but not a scold | K |
| One that in short may help to lead a life | L |
| Not farther much from comfort than from strife | L |
| And when she dies and disappoints your fears | M |
| Shall leave some joys for your declining years | M |
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| But as your early youth some time allows | N |
| Nor custom yet demands you for a spouse | O |
| Some hours of freedom may remain as yet | P |
| For one who laughs alike at love and debt | P |
| Then why in haste put off the evil day | Q |
| And snatch at youthful comforts while you may | Q |
| Pause nor so soon the various bliss forego | R |
| That single souls and such alone can know | R |
| Ah why too early careless life resign | S |
| Your morning slumber and your evening wine | S |
| Your loved companion and his easy talk | T |
| Your Muse invoked in every peaceful walk | T |
| What can no more your scenes paternal please | U |
| Scenes sacred long to wise unmated ease | U |
| The prospect lengthen'd o'er the distant down | V |
| Lakes meadows rising woods and all your own | W |
| What shall your Newstead shall your cloister'd bowers | X |
| The high o'erhanging arch and trembling towers | X |
| Shall these profaned with folly or with strife | L |
| An ever fond or ever angry wife | L |
| Shall these no more confess a manly sway | Q |
| But changeful woman's changing whims obey | Q |
| Who may perhaps as varying humour calls | Y |
| Contract your cloisters and o'erthrow your walls | Y |
| Let Repton loose o'er all the ancient ground | G |
| Change round to square and square convert to round | G |
| Root up the elms' and yews' too solemn gloom | Z |
| And fill with shrubberies gay and green their room | Z |
| Roll down the terrace to a gay parterre | J |
| Where gravel'd walks and flowers alternate glare | J |
| And quite transform in every point complete | A2 |
| Your Gothic abbey to a country seat | A2 |
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| Forget the fair one and your fate delay | Q |
| If not avert at least defer the day | Q |
| When you beneath the female yoke shall bend | B2 |
| And lose your wit your temper and your friend | B2 |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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