I Would I Were A Careless Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM NOPODQDQ RSRSTUTU VWVXYZYZ A2B2A2B2C2D2C2D2| I would I were a careless child | A |
| Still dwelling in my Highland cave | B |
| Or roaming through the dusky wild | A |
| Or bounding o'er the dark blue wave | B |
| The cumbrous pomp of Saxon pride | C |
| Accords not with the freeborn soul | D |
| Which loves the mountain's craggy side | C |
| And seeks the rocks where billows roll | D |
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| Fortune take back these cultur'd lands | E |
| Take back this name of splendid sound | F |
| I hate the touch of servile hands | E |
| I hate the slaves that cringe around | F |
| Place me among the rocks I love | G |
| Which sound to Ocean's wildest roar | H |
| I ask but this again to rove | I |
| Through scenes my youth hath known before | H |
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| Few are my years and yet I feel | J |
| The World was ne'er design'd for me | K |
| Ah why do dark'ning shades conceal | J |
| The hour when man must cease to be | K |
| Once I beheld a splendid dream | L |
| A visionary scene of bliss | M |
| Truth wherefore did thy hated beam | L |
| Awake me to a world like this | M |
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| I lov'd but those I lov'd are gone | N |
| Had friends my early friends are fled | O |
| How cheerless feels the heart alone | P |
| When all its former hopes are dead | O |
| Though gay companions o'er the bowl | D |
| Dispel awhile the sense of ill | Q |
| Though Pleasure stirs the maddening soul | D |
| The heart the heart is lonely still | Q |
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| How dull to hear the voice of those | R |
| Whom Rank or Chance whom Wealth or Power | S |
| Have made though neither friends nor foes | R |
| Associates of the festive hour | S |
| Give me again a faithful few | T |
| In years and feelings still the same | U |
| And I will fly the midnight crew | T |
| Where boist'rous Joy is but a name | U |
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| And Woman lovely Woman thou | V |
| My hope my comforter my all | W |
| How cold must be my bosom now | V |
| When e'en thy smiles begin to pall | X |
| Without a sigh would I resign | Y |
| This busy scene of splendid Woe | Z |
| To make that calm contentment mine | Y |
| Which Virtue knows or seems to know | Z |
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| Fain would I fly the haunts of men | A2 |
| I seek to shun not hate mankind | B2 |
| My breast requires the sullen glen | A2 |
| Whose gloom may suit a darken'd mind | B2 |
| Oh that to me the wings were given | C2 |
| Which bear the turtle to her nest | D2 |
| Then would I cleave the vault of Heaven | C2 |
| To flee away and be at rest | D2 |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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