Fragment (oh! Thou Most Fatal Of Pandora's Train) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBDD EFEFF GBHBDBDD IJIJJBK| Oh thou most fatal of Pandora's train | A |
| Consumption silent cheater of the eye | B |
| Thou comest not robed in agonizing pain | A |
| Nor mark'st thy course with Death's delusive dye | B |
| But silent and unnoticed thou dost lie | B |
| O'er life's soft springs thy venom dost diffuse | C |
| And while thou givest new lustre to the eye | B |
| While o'er the cheek are spread health's ruddy hues | D |
| E'en then life's little rest thy cruel power subdues | D |
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| Oft I've beheld thee in the glow of youth | E |
| Hid 'neath the blushing roses which there bloom'd | F |
| And dropp'd a tear for then thy cankering tooth | E |
| I knew would never stay till all consumed | F |
| In the cold vault of death he were entomb'd | F |
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| But oh what sorrow did I feel as swift | G |
| Insidious ravager I saw thee fly | B |
| Through fair Lucina's breast of whitest snow | H |
| Preparing swift her passage to the sky | B |
| Though still intelligence beam'd in the glance | D |
| The liquid lustre of her fine blue eye | B |
| Yet soon did languid listlessness advance | D |
| And soon she calmly sunk in death's repugnant trance | D |
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| Even when her end was swiftly drawing near | I |
| And dissolution hover'd o'er her head | J |
| Even then so beauteous did her form appear | I |
| That none who saw her but admiring said | J |
| Sure so much beauty never could be dead | J |
| Yet the dark lash of her expressive eye | B |
| Bent lowly down upon the languid | K |
Henry Kirk White
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