To A Beautiful Quaker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFEE GGHHEEFFEEIIJJKKLLMM LLEEEEEE EENNOOOOEEOOPPEE| Sweet girl though only once we met | A |
| That meeting I shall ne'er forget | A |
| And though we ne'er may meet again | B |
| Remembrance will thy form retain | C |
| I would not say I love but still | D |
| My senses struggle with my will | D |
| In vain to drive thee from my breast | E |
| My thoughts are more and more represt | E |
| In vain I check the rising sighs | F |
| Another to the last replies | F |
| Perhaps this is not love but yet | E |
| Our meeting I can ne'er forget | E |
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| What though we never silence broke | G |
| Our eyes a sweeter language spoke | G |
| The tongue in flattering falsehood deals | H |
| And tells a tale it never feels | H |
| Deceit the guilty lips impart | E |
| And hush the mandates of the heart | E |
| But soul's interpreters the eyes | F |
| Spurn such restraint and scorn disguise | F |
| As thus our glances oft convers'd | E |
| And all our bosoms felt rehears'd | E |
| No spirit from within reprov'd us | I |
| Say rather 'twas the spirit mov'd us | I |
| Though what they utter'd I repress | J |
| Yet I conceive thou'lt partly guess | J |
| For as on thee my memory ponders | K |
| Perchance to me thine also wanders | K |
| This for myself at least I'll say | L |
| Thy form appears through night through day | L |
| Awake with it my fancy teems | M |
| In sleep it smiles in fleeting dreams | M |
| The vision charms the hours away | L |
| And bids me curse Aurora's ray | L |
| For breaking slumbers of delight | E |
| Which make me wish for endless night | E |
| Since oh whate'er my future fate | E |
| Shall joy or woe my steps await | E |
| Tempted by love by storms beset | E |
| Thine image I can ne'er forget | E |
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| Alas again no more we meet | E |
| No more our former looks repeat | E |
| Then let me breathe this parting prayer | N |
| The dictate of my bosom's care | N |
| May Heaven so guard my lovely quaker | O |
| That anguish never can o'ertake her | O |
| That peace and virtue ne'er forsake her | O |
| But bliss be aye her heart's partaker | O |
| Oh may the happy mortal fated | E |
| To be by dearest ties related | E |
| For her each hour new joys discover | O |
| And lose the husband in the lover | O |
| May that fair bosom never know | P |
| What 'tis to feel the restless woe | P |
| Which stings the soul with vain regret | E |
| Of him who never can forget | E |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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