The Lover's Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGI JKJK LMLM HJIJ| Hard is the fate of him who loves | A |
| Yet dares not tell his trembling pain | B |
| But to the sympathetic groves | C |
| But to the lonely listening plain | B |
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| Oh when she blesses next your shade | D |
| Oh when her footsteps next are seen | E |
| In flowery tracts along the mead | F |
| In fresher mazes o'er the green | E |
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| Ye gentle spirits of the vale | G |
| To whom the tears of love are dear | H |
| From dying lilies waft a gale | G |
| And sigh my sorrows in her ear | I |
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| Oh tell her what she cannot blame | J |
| Though fear my tongue must ever bind | K |
| Oh tell her that my virtuous flame | J |
| Is as her spotless soul refined | K |
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| Not her own guardian angel eyes | L |
| With chaster tenderness his care | M |
| Not purer her own wishes rise | L |
| Not holier her own sighs in prayer | M |
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| But if at first her virgin fear | H |
| Should start at love's suspected name | J |
| With that of friendship soothe her ear | I |
| True love and friendship are the same | J |
James Thomson
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