Song Of Jealousy, In Love Triumphant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDDDCEFGGCDDDD C HHIICDDDCWhat state of life can be so blest | A |
As love that warms a lover's breast | A |
Two souls in one the same desire | B |
To grant the bliss and to require | B |
But if in heaven a hell we find | C |
'Tis all from thee | D |
O Jealousy | D |
'Tis all from thee | D |
O Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant tyrant Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant of the mind | C |
All other ills though sharp they prove | E |
Serve to refine and perfect love | F |
In absence or unkind disdain | G |
Sweet hope relieves the lover's pain | G |
But ah no cure but death we find | C |
To set us free | D |
From Jealousy | D |
O Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant tyrant Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant of the mind | C |
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False in thy glass all objects are | H |
Some set too near and some too far | H |
Thou art the fire of endless night | I |
The fire that burns and gives no light | I |
All torments of the damn'd we find | C |
In only thee | D |
O Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant tyrant Jealousy | D |
Thou tyrant of the mind | C |
John Dryden
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