To The Sighing Strephon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDE FFGHHG IIGGGG JJKGGK CLMBBM NNOGGO PPQRRQ SSGBBG TTGGGG| Your pardon my friend | A |
| If my rhymes did offend | A |
| Your pardon a thousand times o'er | B |
| From friendship I strove | C |
| Your pangs to remove | D |
| But I swear I will do so no more | E |
| - | |
| Since your beautiful maid | F |
| Your flame has repaid | F |
| No more I your folly regret | G |
| She's now most divine | H |
| And I bow at the shrine | H |
| Of this quickly reform egrave d coquette | G |
| - | |
| Yet still I must own | I |
| I should never have known | I |
| From your verses what else she deserv'd | G |
| Your pain seem'd so great | G |
| I pitied your fate | G |
| As your fair was so dev'lish reserv'd | G |
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| Since the balm breathing kiss | J |
| Of this magical Miss | J |
| Can such wonderful transports produce | K |
| Since the world you forget | G |
| When your lips once have met | G |
| My counsel will get but abuse | K |
| - | |
| You say When I rove | C |
| I know nothing of love | L |
| Tis true I am given to range | M |
| If I rightly remember | B |
| I've lov'd a good number | B |
| Yet there's pleasure at least in a change | M |
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| I will not advance | N |
| By the rules of romance | N |
| To humour a whimsical fair | O |
| Though a smile may delight | G |
| Yet a frown will affright | G |
| Or drive me to dreadful despair | O |
| - | |
| While my blood is thus warm | P |
| I ne'er shall reform | P |
| To mix in the Platonists' school | Q |
| Of this I am sure | R |
| Was my Passion so pure | R |
| Thy Mistress would think me a fool | Q |
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| And if I should shun | S |
| Every woman for one | S |
| Whose image must fill my whole breast | G |
| Whom I must prefer | B |
| And sigh but for her | B |
| What an insult 'twould be to the rest | G |
| - | |
| Now Strephon good bye | T |
| I cannot deny | T |
| Your passion appears most absurd | G |
| Such love as you plead | G |
| Is pure love indeed | G |
| For it only consists in the word | G |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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