To A Golden Heart That He Wore Round His Neck. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA B CC DE D E FGG F HOh thou token loved of joys now perish'd | A |
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That I still wear from my neck suspended | B |
Art thou stronger than our spirit bond so cherish'd | A |
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Or canst thou prolong love's days untimely ended | B |
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Lily I fly from thee I still am doom'd to range | C |
Thro' countries strange | C |
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Thro' distant vales and woods link'd on to thee | D |
Ah Lily's heart could surely never fall | E |
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So soon away from me | D |
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As when a bird bath broken from his thrall | E |
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And seeks the forest green | F |
Proof of imprisonment he bears behind him | G |
A morsel of the thread once used to bind him | G |
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The free born bird of old no more is seen | F |
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For he another's prey bath been | H |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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