Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDBC EEBC FFGC HHGC| When Delia on the plain appears | A |
| Awed by a thousand tender fears | A |
| I would approach but dare not move | B |
| Tell me my heart if this be love | C |
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| Whene'er she speaks my ravish'd ear | D |
| No other voice than hers can hear | D |
| No other wit but hers approve | B |
| Tell me my heart if this be love | C |
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| If she some other youth commend | E |
| Though I was once his fondest friend | E |
| His instant enemy I prove | B |
| Tell me my heart if this be love | C |
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| When she is absent I no more | F |
| Delight in all that pleased before | F |
| The clearest spring or shadiest grove | G |
| Tell me my heart if this be love | C |
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| When fond of power of beauty vain | H |
| Her nets she spread for every swain | H |
| I strove to hate but vainly strove | G |
| Tell me my heart if this be love | C |
Lord George Lyttelton
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