Regret For The Departure Of Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HIHI JKJF LMNO PDKD| As smoke from a volcano soars in the air | A |
| The soul of man discontent mounts from a sigh | B |
| Exhaled as to heaven in mystical prayer | A |
| Invoking that love which forbids him to die | B |
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| Sweet hope lovely passion my grief ever chase | C |
| And scatter the gloom which veils pleasure's bright ray | D |
| O lend me thy wings and assist me to trace | C |
| The flight of my fair one when gone far away | D |
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| When the dim star of pleasure sets glimmering alone | E |
| The planet of beauty on life's dreary shore | F |
| And th' fair bird of fancy forever is flown | E |
| On pinions of haste to be heard of no more | F |
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| Hope tell me dear passion thou wilt not forget | G |
| To flourish still sweetly and blossom as gay | D |
| Expelling like morning the gloom of regret | G |
| When the lark of affection is gone far away | D |
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| If hurried into some unchangeable clime | H |
| Where oceans of pleasure continually roll | I |
| Far far from the limited borders of time | H |
| With a total division of body and soul | I |
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| Hope tell me dear passion which must earth survive | J |
| That love will be sweeter when nature is o'er | K |
| And still without pain though eternity live | J |
| In the triumph of pleasure when time is no more | F |
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| O love when the day light of pleasure shall close | L |
| Let the vesper of death break on life's dusky even | M |
| Let the faint sun of time set in peace as it rose | N |
| And eternity open thy morning in heaven | O |
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| Then hope lovely passion thy torch shall expire | P |
| Effusing on nature life's last feeble ray | D |
| While the night maid of love sets her taper on fire | K |
| To guard smiling beauty from time far away | D |
George Moses Horton
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