Sonnet Xviii: Why Art Thou Chang'd? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| Why art thou chang'd O Phaon tell me why | A |
| Love flies reproach when passion feels decay | B |
| Or I would paint the raptures of that day | B |
| When in sweet converse mingling sigh with sigh | A |
| I mark'd the graceful languor of thine eye | A |
| As on a shady bank entranc'd we lay | B |
| O Eyes whose beamy radiance stole away | B |
| As stars fade trembling from the burning sky | A |
| Why art thou chang'd dear source of all my woes | C |
| Though dark my bosom's tint through ev'ry vein | D |
| A ruby tide of purest lustre flows | C |
| Warm'd by thy love or chill'd by thy disdain | D |
| And yet no bliss this sensate Being knows | C |
| Ah why is rapture so allied to pain | D |
Mary Darby Robinson
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