To Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMOPQPK RPRSTUTU SVPVNWNX YTZTIGIG HPHPA2NA2NParent of golden dreams Romance | A |
Auspicious Queen of childish joys | B |
Who lead'st along in airy dance | A |
Thy votive train of girls and boys | B |
At length in spells no longer bound | C |
I break the fetters of my youth | D |
No more I tread thy mystic round | C |
But leave thy realms for those of Truth | D |
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And yet 'tis hard to quit the dreams | E |
Which haunt the unsuspicious soul | F |
Where every nymph a goddess seems | E |
Whose eyes through rays immortal roll | F |
While Fancy holds her boundless reign | G |
And all assume a varied hue | H |
When Virgins seem no longer vain | G |
And even Woman's smiles are true | H |
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And must we own thee but a name | I |
And from thy hall of clouds descend | J |
Nor find a Sylph in every dame | I |
A Pylades in every friend | J |
But leave at once thy realms of air | K |
To mingling bands of fairy elves | L |
Confess that woman's false as fair | K |
And friends have feeling for themselves | L |
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With shame I own I've felt thy sway | M |
Repentant now thy reign is o'er | N |
No more thy precepts I obey | M |
No more on fancied pinions soar | O |
Fond fool to love a sparkling eye | P |
And think that eye to truth was dear | Q |
To trust a passing wanton's sigh | P |
And melt beneath a wanton's tear | K |
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Romance disgusted with deceit | R |
Far from thy motley court I fly | P |
Where Affectation holds her seat | R |
And sickly Sensibility | S |
Whose silly tears can never flow | T |
For any pangs excepting thine | U |
Who turns aside from real woe | T |
To steep in dew thy gaudy shrine | U |
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Now join with sable Sympathy | S |
With cypress crown'd array'd in weeds | V |
Who heaves with thee her simple sigh | P |
Whose breast for every bosom bleeds | V |
And call thy sylvan female choir | N |
To mourn a Swain for ever gone | W |
Who once could glow with equal fire | N |
But bends not now before thy throne | X |
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Ye genial Nymphs whose ready tears | Y |
On all occasions swiftly flow | T |
Whose bosoms heave with fancied fears | Z |
With fancied flames and phrenzy glow | T |
Say will you mourn my absent name | I |
Apostate from your gentle train | G |
An infant Bard at least may claim | I |
From you a sympathetic strain | G |
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Adieu fond race a long adieu | H |
The hour of fate is hovering nigh | P |
E'en now the gulf appears in view | H |
Where unlamented you must lie | P |
Oblivion's blackening lake is seen | A2 |
Convuls'd by gales you cannot weather | N |
Where you and eke your gentle queen | A2 |
Alas must perish altogether | N |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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