Hebe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG DHDHIJ KLKLDD MNONKP| YOUTH thou art a lovely time | A |
| With thy wild and dreaming eyes | B |
| Looking onwards to their prime | A |
| Coloured by their April skies | B |
| Yet I do not wish for thee | C |
| Pass oh quickly pass from me | C |
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| Thou hast all too much unrest | D |
| Haunted by vain hopes and fears | E |
| Though thy cheeks with smiles be drest | D |
| Yet that cheek is wet with tears | F |
| Bitter are the frequent showers | G |
| Falling in thy sunny hours | G |
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| Let my heart grow calm and cold | D |
| Calm to sorrow cold to love | H |
| Let affections loose their hold | D |
| Let my spirit look above | H |
| I am weary youth pass on | I |
| All thy dearest gifts are gone | J |
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| She in whose sweet form the Greek | K |
| Bade his loveliest vision dwell | L |
| She of yon bright cup and cheek | K |
| From her native heaven fell | L |
| Type of what may never last | D |
| Soon the heaven of youth is past | D |
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| Oh farewell for never more | M |
| Can thy dreams again be mine | N |
| Hope and truth and faith are o'er | O |
| And the heart which was their shrine | N |
| Has no boon of thee to seek | K |
| Asking but to rest or break | P |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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