On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPR SOSO TUVU WXWX| 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved | A |
| Since others it hath ceased to move | B |
| Yet though I cannot be beloved | C |
| Still let me love | D |
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| My days are in the yellow leaf | E |
| The flowers and fruits of love are gone | F |
| The worm the canker and the grief | E |
| Are mine alone | G |
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| The fire that on my bosom preys | H |
| Is lone as some volcanic isle | I |
| No torch is kindled at its blaze | H |
| A funeral pile | I |
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| The hope the fear the jealous care | J |
| The exalted portion of the pain | K |
| And power of love I cannot share | J |
| But wear the chain | K |
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| But 'tis not thus and 'tis not here | L |
| Such thoughts should shake my soul nor now | M |
| Where glory decks the hero's bier | L |
| Or binds his brow | M |
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| The sword the banner and the field | N |
| Glory and Greece around me see | O |
| The Spartan borne upon his shield | N |
| Was not more free | O |
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| Awake not Greece she is awake | P |
| Awake my spirit Think through whom | Q |
| Thy life blood tracks its parent lake | P |
| And then strike home | R |
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| Tread those reviving passions down | S |
| Unworthy manhood unto thee | O |
| Indifferent should the smile or frown | S |
| Of beauty be | O |
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| If thou regret'st thy youth why live | T |
| The land of honourable death | U |
| Is here up to the field and give | V |
| Away thy breath | U |
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| Seek out less often sought than found | W |
| A soldier's grave for thee the best | X |
| Then look around and choose thy ground | W |
| And take thy rest | X |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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