Bessy Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACADE AFAFABABE AEAEAGAGE| When life looks drear and lonely love | A |
| And pleasant fancies flee | B |
| Then will the Muses only love | A |
| Bestow a thought on me | B |
| Mine is a harp which Pleasure love | A |
| To waken strives in vain | C |
| To Joy's entrancing measure love | A |
| It ne'er can thrill again | D |
| Why mock me Bessy Bell | E |
| - | |
| Oh do not ask me ever love | A |
| For rapture woven rhymes | F |
| For vain is each endeavor love | A |
| To sound Mirth's play bell chimes | F |
| Yet still believe me dearest love | A |
| Though sad my song may be | B |
| This heart still dotes sincerest love | A |
| And grateful turns to thee | B |
| My once fond Bessy Bell | E |
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| Those eyes still rest upon me love | A |
| I feel their magic spell | E |
| With that same look you won me love | A |
| Fair gentle Bessy Bell | E |
| My doom you've idly spoken love | A |
| You never can be mine | G |
| But though my heart is broken love | A |
| Still Bessy it is thine | G |
| Adieu false Bessy Bell | E |
George Pope Morris
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