A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDD EFGHDDD| In vain you tell your parting lover | A |
| You wish fair winds may waft him over | A |
| Alas what winds can happy prove | B |
| That bear me far from what I love | C |
| Alas what dangers on the main | D |
| Can equal those that I sustain | D |
| From slighted vows and cold disdain | D |
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| Be gentle and in pity choose | E |
| To wish the wildest tempests loose | F |
| That thrown again upon the coast | G |
| Where first my shipwreck'd heart was lost | H |
| I may once more repeat my pain | D |
| Once more in dying notes complain | D |
| Of slighted vows and cold disdain | D |
Matthew Prior
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