Songs Set To Music: 26. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE AFAG HIHI| Some kind angel gently flying | A |
| Moved with pity at my pain | B |
| Tell Corinna I am dying | A |
| Till with joy we meet again | C |
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| Tell Corinna since we parted | D |
| I have never known delight | E |
| And shall soon be broken hearted | D |
| If I longer want her sight | E |
| - | |
| Tell her how her lover mourning | A |
| Thinks each lazy day a year | F |
| Cursing every morn returning | A |
| Since Corinna is not here | G |
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| Tell her too not distant places | H |
| Will she be but true and kind | I |
| Join'd with time and change of faces | H |
| E'er shall shake my constant mind | I |
Matthew Prior
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