Lines Addressed To A Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLHL MNMN OPOP QNQN RSRS KTKU| As the author was discharging his Pistols in a Garden Two | A |
| Ladies passing near the spot were alarmed by the sound of a | B |
| Bullet hissing near them to one of whom the following | C |
| stanzas were addressed the next morning | C |
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| Doubtless sweet girl the hissing lead | D |
| Wafting destruction o'er thy charms | E |
| And hurtling o'er thy lovely head | D |
| Has fill'd that breast with fond alarms | E |
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| Surely some envious Demon's force | F |
| Vex'd to behold such beauty here | G |
| Impell'd the bullet's viewless course | F |
| Diverted from its first career | H |
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| Yes in that nearly fatal hour | I |
| The ball obey'd some hell born guide | J |
| But Heaven with interposing power | I |
| In pity turn'd the death aside | J |
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| Yet as perchance one trembling tear | K |
| Upon that thrilling bosom fell | L |
| Which I th' unconscious cause of fear | H |
| Extracted from its glistening cell | L |
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| Say what dire penance can atone | M |
| For such an outrage done to thee | N |
| Arraign'd before thy beauty's throne | M |
| What punishment wilt thou decree | N |
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| Might I perform the Judge's part | O |
| The sentence I should scarce deplore | P |
| It only would restore a heart | O |
| Which but belong'd to thee before | P |
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| The least atonement I can make | Q |
| Is to become no longer free | N |
| Henceforth I breathe but for thy sake | Q |
| Thou shalt be all in all to me | N |
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| But thou perhaps may'st now reject | R |
| Such expiation of my guilt | S |
| Come then some other mode elect | R |
| Let it be death or what thou wilt | S |
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| Choose then relentless and I swear | K |
| Nought shall thy dread decree prevent | T |
| Yet hold one little word forbear | K |
| Let it be aught but banishment | U |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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