Lines Written Beneath An Elm In The Churchyard Of Harrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJHHAAKKLLMNOOPPSpot of my youth whose hoary branches sigh | A |
Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky | A |
Where now alone I muse who oft have trod | B |
With those I loved thy soft and verdant sod | B |
With those who scatter'd far perchance deplore | C |
Like me the happy scenes they knew before | C |
Oh as I trace again thy winding hill | D |
Mine eyes admire my heart adores thee still | D |
Thou drooping Elm beneath whose boughs I lay | E |
And frequent mus'd the twilight hours away | E |
Where as they once were wont my limbs recline | F |
But ah without the thoughts which then were mine | F |
How do thy branches moaning to the blast | G |
Invite the bosom to recall the past | G |
And seem to whisper as they gently swell | H |
Take while thou canst a lingering last farewell | H |
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When Fate shall chill at length this fever'd breast | I |
And calm its cares and passions into rest | I |
Oft have I thought 'twould soothe my dying hour | J |
If aught may soothe when Life resigns her power | J |
To know some humbler grave some narrow cell | H |
Would hide my bosom where it lov'd to dwell | H |
With this fond dream methinks 'twere sweet to die | A |
And here it linger'd here my heart might lie | A |
Here might I sleep where all my hopes arose | K |
Scene of my youth and couch of my repose | K |
For ever stretch'd beneath this mantling shade | L |
Press'd by the turf where once my childhood play'd | L |
Wrapt by the soil that veils the spot I lov'd | M |
Mix'd with the earth o'er which my footsteps mov'd | N |
Blest by the tongues that charm'd my youthful ear | O |
Mourn'd by the few my soul acknowledged here | O |
Deplor'd by those in early days allied | P |
And unremember'd by the world beside | P |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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