A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDC EEFFGGHHC CCIIJJKKC GGLLAAEEC MHNOPQLLRRC| To that dear nymph whose pow'rful name | A |
| Does every throbbing nerve inflame | A |
| As the soft sound I low repeat | B |
| My pulse unequal measures beat | B |
| Whose eyes I never more shall see | C |
| That once so sweetly shin'd on thee | C |
| Go gentle wind and kindly bear | D |
| My tender wishes to the fair | D |
| Hoh ho ho c | C |
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| Amidst her pleasures let her know | E |
| The secret anguish of my woe | E |
| The midnight pang the jealous hell | F |
| Does in this tortur'd bosom dwell | F |
| While laughing she and full of play | G |
| Is with her young companions gay | G |
| Or hearing in some fragrant bower | H |
| Her lover's sigh and beauty's power | H |
| Hoh ho ho c | C |
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| Lost and forgotten may I be | C |
| Oh may no pitying thought of me | C |
| Disturb the joy that she may find | I |
| When love is crown'd and fortune kind | I |
| May that bless'd swain whom yet I hate | J |
| Be proud of his distinguish'd fate | J |
| Each happy night be like the first | K |
| And he be bless'd as I am curs'd | K |
| Hoh ho ho c | C |
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| While in these pathless woods I stray | G |
| And lose my solitary way | G |
| Talk to the stars to trees complain | L |
| And tell the senseless words my pain | L |
| But madness spares the sacred name | A |
| Nor dares the hidden wound proclaim | A |
| Which secret rankling sure and slow | E |
| Shall close in endless peace my woe | E |
| Hoh ho ho c | C |
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| When this fond heart shall ache no more | M |
| And all the ills of life are o'er | H |
| If gods by lovers' prayers are mov'd | N |
| As ev'ry god in heaven has lov'd | O |
| Instead of bright Elysian joys | P |
| That unknown something in the skies | Q |
| In recompense of all my pain | L |
| The only heaven I'd obtain | L |
| May I the guardian of her charms | R |
| Preserve that paradise from harms | R |
| Hoh ho ho c | C |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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