The Tear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD D EFBGGB GGBHHB IIBDDB JJBKKB LMBIIB DDBDDB NNBDDB BBBBBB DDBOOB DDBDDB DDBCCB DDBCCB| O lachrymarum fons tenero sacros | A |
| Ducentium ortus ex animo quater | B |
| Felix in imo qui scatentem | C |
| Pectore te pia Nympha sensit | D |
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| GRAY 'Alcaic Fragment' | D |
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| When Friendship or Love | E |
| Our sympathies move | F |
| When Truth in a glance should appear | B |
| The lips may beguile | G |
| With a dimple or smile | G |
| But the test of affection's a Tear | B |
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| Too oft is a smile | G |
| But the hypocrite's wile | G |
| To mask detestation or fear | B |
| Give me the soft sigh | H |
| Whilst the soul telling eye | H |
| Is dimm'd for a time with a Tear | B |
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| Mild Charity's glow | I |
| To us mortals below | I |
| Shows the soul from barbarity clear | B |
| Compassion will melt | D |
| Where this virtue is felt | D |
| And its dew is diffused in a Tear | B |
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| The man doom'd to sail | J |
| With the blast of the gale | J |
| Through billows Atlantic to steer | B |
| As he bends o'er the wave | K |
| Which may soon be his grave | K |
| The green sparkles bright with a Tear | B |
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| The Soldier braves death | L |
| For a fanciful wreath | M |
| In Glory's romantic career | B |
| But he raises the foe | I |
| When in battle laid low | I |
| And bathes every wound with a Tear | B |
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| If with high bounding pride | D |
| He return to his bride | D |
| Renouncing the gore crimson'd spear | B |
| All his toils are repaid | D |
| When embracing the maid | D |
| From her eyelid he kisses the Tear | B |
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| Sweet scene of my youth | N |
| Seat of Friendship and Truth | N |
| Where Love chas'd each fast fleeting year | B |
| Loth to leave thee I mourn'd | D |
| For a last look I turn'd | D |
| But thy spire was scarce seen through a Tear | B |
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| Though my vows I can pour | B |
| To my Mary no more | B |
| My Mary to Love once so dear | B |
| In the shade of her bow'r | B |
| I remember the hour | B |
| She rewarded those vows with a Tear | B |
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| By another possest | D |
| May she live ever blest | D |
| Her name still my heart must revere | B |
| With a sigh I resign | O |
| What I once thought was mine | O |
| And forgive her deceit with a Tear | B |
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| Ye friends of my heart | D |
| Ere from you I depart | D |
| This hope to my breast is most near | B |
| If again we shall meet | D |
| In this rural retreat | D |
| May we meet as we part with a Tear | B |
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| When my soul wings her flight | D |
| To the regions of night | D |
| And my corse shall recline on its bier | B |
| As ye pass by the tomb | C |
| Where my ashes consume | C |
| Oh moisten their dust with a Tear | B |
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| May no marble bestow | D |
| The splendour of woe | D |
| Which the children of Vanity rear | B |
| No fiction of fame | C |
| Shall blazon my name | C |
| All I ask all I wish is a Tear | B |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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