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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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