The Adieu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFFEDGDGHHIJJI KDKDLLKMMK FIFINNIDDI IOIPQQDRRD SISIKKIEEI TDTDUUKIIK CIVIKKIDDI IDIDWWKIIK IEIEIIXYYX IZIZXXUIIU NA2NA2B2RAC2D2AWritten under the impression that the author would soon die | A |
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Adieu thou Hill where early joy | B |
Spread roses o'er my brow | C |
Where Science seeks each loitering boy | B |
With knowledge to endow | C |
Adieu my youthful friends or foes | D |
Partners of former bliss or woes | D |
No more through Ida's paths we stray | E |
Soon must I share the gloomy cell | F |
Whose ever slumbering inmates dwell | F |
Unconscious of the day | E |
Adieu ye hoary Regal Fanes | D |
Ye spires of Granta's vale | G |
Where Learning robed in sable reigns | D |
And Melancholy pale | G |
Ye comrades of the jovial hour | H |
Ye tenants of the classic bower | H |
On Cama's verdant margin plac'd | I |
Adieu while memory still is mine | J |
For offerings on Oblivion's shrine | J |
These scenes must be effac'd | I |
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Adieu ye mountains of the clime | K |
Where grew my youthful years | D |
Where Loch na Garr in snows sublime | K |
His giant summit rears | D |
Why did my childhood wander forth | L |
From you ye regions of the North | L |
With sons of Pride to roam | K |
Why did I quit my Highland cave | M |
Marr's dusky heath and Dee's clear wave | M |
To seek a Sotheron home | K |
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Hall of my Sires a long farewell | F |
Yet why to thee adieu | I |
Thy vaults will echo back my knell | F |
Thy towers my tomb will view | I |
The faltering tongue which sung thy fall | N |
And former glories of thy Hall | N |
Forgets its wonted simple note | I |
But yet the Lyre retains the strings | D |
And sometimes on olian wings | D |
In dying strains may float | I |
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Fields which surround yon rustic cot | I |
While yet I linger here | O |
Adieu you are not now forgot | I |
To retrospection dear | P |
Streamlet along whose rippling surge | Q |
My youthful limbs were wont to urge | Q |
At noontide heat their pliant course | D |
Plunging with ardour from the shore | R |
Thy springs will lave these limbs no more | R |
Deprived of active force | D |
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And shall I here forget the scene | S |
Still nearest to my breast | I |
Rocks rise and rivers roll between | S |
The spot which passion blest | I |
Yet Mary all thy beauties seem | K |
Fresh as in Love's bewitching dream | K |
To me in smiles display'd | I |
Till slow disease resigns his prey | E |
To Death the parent of decay | E |
Thine image cannot fade | I |
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And thou my Friend whose gentle love | T |
Yet thrills my bosom's chords | D |
How much thy friendship was above | T |
Description's power of words | D |
Still near my breast thy gift I wear | U |
Which sparkled once with Feeling's tear | U |
Of Love the pure the sacred gem | K |
Our souls were equal and our lot | I |
In that dear moment quite forgot | I |
Let Pride alone condemn | K |
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All all is dark and cheerless now | C |
No smile of Love's deceit | I |
Can warm my veins with wonted glow | V |
Can bid Life's pulses beat | I |
Not e'en the hope of future fame | K |
Can wake my faint exhausted frame | K |
Or crown with fancied wreaths my head | I |
Mine is a short inglorious race | D |
To humble in the dust my face | D |
And mingle with the dead | I |
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Oh Fame thou goddess of my heart | I |
On him who gains thy praise | D |
Pointless must fall the Spectre's dart | I |
Consumed in Glory's blaze | D |
But me she beckons from the earth | W |
My name obscure unmark'd my birth | W |
My life a short and vulgar dream | K |
Lost in the dull ignoble crowd | I |
My hopes recline within a shroud | I |
My fate is Lethe's stream | K |
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When I repose beneath the sod | I |
Unheeded in the clay | E |
Where once my playful footsteps trod | I |
Where now my head must lay | E |
The meed of Pity will be shed | I |
In dew drops o'er my narrow bed | I |
By nightly skies and storms alone | X |
No mortal eye will deign to steep | Y |
With tears the dark sepulchral deep | Y |
Which hides a name unknown | X |
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Forget this world my restless sprite | I |
Turn turn thy thoughts to Heaven | Z |
There must thou soon direct thy flight | I |
If errors are forgiven | Z |
To bigots and to sects unknown | X |
Bow down beneath the Almighty's Throne | X |
To Him address thy trembling prayer | U |
He who is merciful and just | I |
Will not reject a child of dust | I |
Although His meanest care | U |
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Father of Light to Thee I call | N |
My soul is dark within | A2 |
Thou who canst mark the sparrow's fall | N |
Avert the death of sin | A2 |
Thou who canst guide the wandering star | B2 |
Who calm'st the elemental war | R |
Whose mantle is yon boundless sky | A |
My thoughts my words my crimes forgive | C2 |
And since I soon must cease to live | D2 |
Instruct me how to die | A |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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