Stanzas For Music: There's Not A Joy The World Can Give Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEF GHIJ KKLL MNOO| There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away | A |
| When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay | A |
| 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone which fades so fast | B |
| But the tender bloom of heart is gone ere youth itself be past | B |
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| Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness | C |
| Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess | D |
| The magnet of their course is gone or only points in vain | E |
| The shore to which their shivered sail shall never stretch again | F |
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| Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down | G |
| It cannot feel for others' woes it dare not dream its own | H |
| That heavy chill has frozen o'er the fountain of our tears | I |
| And though the eye may sparkle still 'tis where the ice appears | J |
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| Though wit may flash from fluent lips and mirth distract the breast | K |
| Through midnight hours that yield no more their former hope of rest | K |
| 'Tis but as ivy leaves around the ruined turret wreath | L |
| All green and wildly fresh without but worn and grey beneath | L |
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| Oh could I feel as I have felt or be what I have been | M |
| Or weep as I could once have wept o'er many a vanished scene | N |
| As springs in deserts found seem sweet all brackish though they be | O |
| So midst the withered waste of life those tears would flow to me | O |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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