To Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMOPQPK RPRSTUTU SVPVNWNX YTZTIGIG HPHPA2NA2N

Parent of golden dreams RomanceA
Auspicious Queen of childish joysB
Who lead'st along in airy danceA
Thy votive train of girls and boysB
At length in spells no longer boundC
I break the fetters of my youthD
No more I tread thy mystic roundC
But leave thy realms for those of TruthD
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And yet 'tis hard to quit the dreamsE
Which haunt the unsuspicious soulF
Where every nymph a goddess seemsE
Whose eyes through rays immortal rollF
While Fancy holds her boundless reignG
And all assume a varied hueH
When Virgins seem no longer vainG
And even Woman's smiles are trueH
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And must we own thee but a nameI
And from thy hall of clouds descendJ
Nor find a Sylph in every dameI
A Pylades in every friendJ
But leave at once thy realms of airK
To mingling bands of fairy elvesL
Confess that woman's false as fairK
And friends have feeling for themselvesL
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With shame I own I've felt thy swayM
Repentant now thy reign is o'erN
No more thy precepts I obeyM
No more on fancied pinions soarO
Fond fool to love a sparkling eyeP
And think that eye to truth was dearQ
To trust a passing wanton's sighP
And melt beneath a wanton's tearK
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Romance disgusted with deceitR
Far from thy motley court I flyP
Where Affectation holds her seatR
And sickly SensibilityS
Whose silly tears can never flowT
For any pangs excepting thineU
Who turns aside from real woeT
To steep in dew thy gaudy shrineU
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Now join with sable SympathyS
With cypress crown'd array'd in weedsV
Who heaves with thee her simple sighP
Whose breast for every bosom bleedsV
And call thy sylvan female choirN
To mourn a Swain for ever goneW
Who once could glow with equal fireN
But bends not now before thy throneX
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Ye genial Nymphs whose ready tearsY
On all occasions swiftly flowT
Whose bosoms heave with fancied fearsZ
With fancied flames and phrenzy glowT
Say will you mourn my absent nameI
Apostate from your gentle trainG
An infant Bard at least may claimI
From you a sympathetic strainG
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Adieu fond race a long adieuH
The hour of fate is hovering nighP
E'en now the gulf appears in viewH
Where unlamented you must lieP
Oblivion's blackening lake is seenA2
Convuls'd by gales you cannot weatherN
Where you and eke your gentle queenA2
Alas must perish altogetherN

George Gordon Lord Byron



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