Lines To Him Who Will Understand Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFBBGGHH BBIIJJKKHHLLMMNNOOFF PPAAQQ BBCCJJRS TTUUVVBBWWEXYYVVOOMM CCGGWWBB VVZZ| THOU art no more my bosom's FRIEND | A |
| Here must the sweet delusion end | A |
| That charm'd my senses many a year | B |
| Thro' smiling summers winters drear | B |
| O FRIENDSHIP am I doom'd to find | C |
| Thou art a phantom of the mind | C |
| A glitt'ring shade an empty name | D |
| An air born vision's vap'rish flame | D |
| And yet the dear DECEIT so long | E |
| Has wak'd to joy my matin song | E |
| Has bid my tears forget to flow | F |
| Chas'd ev'ry pain soothed ev'ry woe | F |
| That TRUTH unwelcome to my ear | B |
| Swells the deep sigh recalls the tear | B |
| Gives to the sense the keenest smart | G |
| Checks the warm pulses of the Heart | G |
| Darkens my FATE and steals away | H |
| Each gleam of joy thro' life's sad day | H |
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| BRITAIN FAREWELL I quit thy shore | B |
| My native Country charms no more | B |
| No guide to mark the toilsome road | I |
| No destin'd clime no fix'd abode | I |
| Alone and sad ordain'd to trace | J |
| The vast expanse of endless space | J |
| To view upon the mountain's height | K |
| Thro' varied shades of glimm'ring light | K |
| The distant landscape fade away | H |
| In the last gleam of parting day | H |
| Or on the quiv'ring lucid stream | L |
| To watch the pale moon's silv'ry beam | L |
| Or when in sad and plaintive strains | M |
| The mournful PHILOMEL complains | M |
| In dulcet notes bewails her fate | N |
| And murmurs for her absent mate | N |
| Inspir'd by SYMPATHY divine | O |
| I'll weep her woes FOR THEY ARE MINE | O |
| Driven by my FATE where'er I go | F |
| O'er burning plains o'er hills of snow | F |
| Or on the bosom of the wave | P |
| The howling tempest doom'd to brave | P |
| Where'er my lonely course I bend | A |
| Thy image shall my steps attend | A |
| Each object I am doom'd to see | Q |
| Shall bid remem'brance PICTURE THEE | Q |
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| Yes I shall view thee in each FLOW'R | B |
| That changes with the transient hour | B |
| Thy wand'ring Fancy I shall find | C |
| Borne on the wings of every WIND | C |
| Thy wild impetuous passions trace | J |
| O'er the white wave's tempestuous space | J |
| In every changing season prove | R |
| An emblem of thy wav'ring LOVE | S |
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| Torn from my country friends and you | T |
| The World lies open to my view | T |
| New objects shall my mind engage | U |
| I will explore th' HISTORIC page | U |
| Sweet POETRY shall soothe my soul | V |
| PHILOSOPHY each pang controul | V |
| The MUSE I'll seek her lambent fire | B |
| My soul's quick senses shall inspire | B |
| With finer nerves my heart shall beat | W |
| Touch'd by Heaven's own PROMETHEAN heat | W |
| ITALIA'S gales shall bear my song | E |
| In soft link'd notes her woods among | X |
| Upon the blue hill's misty side | Y |
| Thro' trackless desarts waste and wide | Y |
| O'er craggy rocks whose torrents flow | V |
| Upon the silver sands below | V |
| Sweet Land of MELODY 'tis thine | O |
| The softest passions to refine | O |
| Thy myrtle groves thy melting strains | M |
| Shall harmonize and soothe my pains | M |
| Nor will I cast one thought behind | C |
| On foes relentless FRIENDS unkind | C |
| I feel I feel their poison'd dart | G |
| Pierce the life nerve within my heart | G |
| 'Tis mingled with the vital heat | W |
| That bids my throbbing pulses beat | W |
| Soon shall that vital heat be o'er | B |
| Those throbbing pulses beat no more | B |
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| No I will breathe the spicy gale | V |
| Plunge the clear stream new health exhale | V |
| O'er my pale cheek diffuse the rose | Z |
| And drink OBLIVION to my woes | Z |
Mary Darby Robinson
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