The Cornelian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JGJG KLKL IGIG MGNG| No specious splendour of this stone | A |
| Endears it to my memory ever | B |
| With lustre only once it shone | A |
| And blushes modest as the giver | B |
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| Some who can sneer at friendship's ties | C |
| Have for my weakness oft reprov'd me | D |
| Yet still the simple gift I prize | C |
| For I am sure the giver lov'd me | D |
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| He offer'd it with downcast look | E |
| As fearful that I might refuse it | F |
| I told him when the gift I took | E |
| My only fear should be to lose it | F |
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| This pledge attentively I view'd | G |
| And sparkling as I held it near | H |
| Methought one drop the stone bedew'd | G |
| And ever since I've lov'd a tear | I |
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| Still to adorn his humble youth | J |
| Nor wealth nor birth their treasures yield | G |
| But he who seeks the flowers of truth | J |
| Must quit the garden for the field | G |
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| 'Tis not the plant uprear'd in sloth | K |
| Which beauty shews and sheds perfume | L |
| The flowers which yield the most of both | K |
| In Nature's wild luxuriance bloom | L |
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| Had Fortune aided Nature's care | I |
| For once forgetting to be blind | G |
| His would have been an ample share | I |
| If well proportioned to his mind | G |
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| But had the Goddess clearly seen | M |
| His form had fix'd her fickle breast | G |
| Her countless hoards would his have been | N |
| And none remain'd to give the rest | G |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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