Eulogy On Henry Kirke White, By Lord Byron (from The English Bards And Scotch Reviewers) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJ| Unhappy White while life was in its spring | A |
| And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing | A |
| The spoiler came and all thy promise fair | B |
| Has sought the grave to sleep for ever there | B |
| Oh what a noble heart was here undone | C |
| When science self destroy'd her favourite son | C |
| Yes she too much indulged thy fond pursuit | D |
| She sow'd the seeds but death has reap'd the fruit | D |
| 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow | E |
| And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low | E |
| So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain | F |
| No more through rolling clouds to soar again | G |
| View'd his own feather on the fatal dart | H |
| And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart | H |
| Keen were his pangs but keener far to feel | I |
| He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel | I |
| While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest | J |
| Drank the last life drop of his bleeding breast | J |
Henry Kirk White
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