To Lesbia! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE FGFG HBHB BIBI JKJK BKBK BEBE| LESBIA since far from you I've rang'd | A |
| Our souls with fond affection glow not | B |
| You say 'tis I not you have chang'd | A |
| I'd tell you why but yet I know not | B |
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| Your polish'd brow no cares have crost | B |
| And Lesbia we are not much older | C |
| Since trembling first my heart I lost | B |
| Or told my love with hope grown bolder | C |
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| Sixteen was then our utmost age | D |
| Two years have lingering pass'd away love | E |
| And now new thoughts our minds engage | D |
| At least I feel disposed to stray love | E |
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| Tis I that am alone to blame | F |
| I that am guilty of love's treason | G |
| Since your sweet breast is still the same | F |
| Caprice must be my only reason | G |
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| I do not love suspect your truth | H |
| With jealous doubt my bosom heaves not | B |
| Warm was the passion of my youth | H |
| One trace of dark deceit it leaves not | B |
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| No no my flame was not pretended | B |
| For oh I lov'd you most sincerely | I |
| And though our dream at last is ended | B |
| My bosom still esteems you dearly | I |
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| No more we meet in yonder bowers | J |
| Absence has made me prone to roving | K |
| But older firmer hearts than ours | J |
| Have found monotony in loving | K |
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| Your cheek's soft bloom is unimpair'd | B |
| New beauties still are daily bright'ning | K |
| Your eye for conquest beams prepar'd | B |
| The forge of love's resistless lightning | K |
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| Arm'd thus to make their bosoms bleed | B |
| Many will throng to sigh like me love | E |
| More constant they may prove indeed | B |
| Fonder alas they ne'er can be love | E |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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