Well! Thou Art Happy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QFQF| Well thou art happy and I feel | A |
| That I should thus be happy too | B |
| For still my heart regards thy weal | A |
| Warmly as it was wont to do | B |
| - | |
| Thy husband's blest and 'twill impart | C |
| Some pangs to view his happier lot | D |
| But let them pass Oh how my heart | C |
| Would hate him if he loved thee not | D |
| - | |
| When late I saw thy favourite child | E |
| I thought my jealous heart would break | F |
| But when the unconscious infant smil'd | E |
| I kiss'd it for its mother's sake | F |
| - | |
| I kiss'd it and repress'd my sighs | G |
| Its father in its face to see | H |
| But then it had its mother's eyes | G |
| And they were all to love and me | H |
| - | |
| Mary adieu I must away | I |
| While thou art blest I'll not repine | J |
| But near thee I can never stay | I |
| My heart would soon again be thine | J |
| - | |
| I deem'd that Time I deem'd that Pride | K |
| Had quench'd at length my boyish flame | L |
| Nor knew till seated by thy side | K |
| My heart in all save hope the same | L |
| - | |
| Yet was I calm I knew the time | M |
| My breast would thrill before thy look | N |
| But now to tremble were a crime | M |
| We met and not a nerve was shook | N |
| - | |
| I saw thee gaze upon my face | O |
| Yet meet with no confusion there | P |
| One only feeling couldst thou trace | O |
| The sullen calmness of despair | P |
| - | |
| Away away my early dream | Q |
| Remembrance never must awake | F |
| Oh where is Lethe's fabled stream | Q |
| My foolish heart be still or break | F |
George Gordon Lord Byron
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Translation Of The Epitaph On Virgil And Tibullus, By Domitius Marsus Poem
When I Roved A Young Highlander Poem>>
Write your comment about Well! Thou Art Happy poem by George Gordon Lord Byron
Best Poems of George Gordon Lord Byron