To Caroline (iv) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF DGDG HIHI JKJK LMLM NMNM| When I hear you express an affection so warm | A |
| Ne'er think my belov'd that I do not believe | B |
| For your lip would the soul of suspicion disarm | C |
| And your eye beams a ray which can never deceive | B |
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| Yet still this fond bosom regrets while adoring | D |
| That love like the leaf must fall into the sear | E |
| That Age will come on when Remembrance deploring | D |
| Contemplates the scenes of her youth with a tear | F |
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| That the time must arrive when no longer retaining | D |
| Their auburn those locks must wave thin to the breeze | G |
| When a few silver hairs of those tresses remaining | D |
| Prove nature a prey to decay and disease | G |
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| Tis this my belov'd which spreads gloom o'er my features | H |
| Though I ne'er shall presume to arraign the decree | I |
| Which God has proclaim'd as the fate of his creatures | H |
| In the death which one day will deprive you of me | I |
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| Mistake not sweet sceptic the cause of emotion | J |
| No doubt can the mind of your lover invade | K |
| He worships each look with such faithful devotion | J |
| A smile can enchant or a tear can dissuade | K |
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| But as death my belov'd soon or late shall o'ertake us | L |
| And our breasts which alive with such sympathy glow | M |
| Will sleep in the grave till the blast shall awake us | L |
| When calling the dead in Earth's bosom laid low | M |
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| Oh then let us drain while we may draughts of pleasure | N |
| Which from passion like ours must unceasingly flow | M |
| Let us pass round the cup of Love's bliss in full measure | N |
| And quaff the contents as our nectar below | M |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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