After A Lecture On Moore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IDID JKJK LMLM NON PPPP QRQR STST| SHINE soft ye trembling tears of light | A |
| That strew the mourning skies | B |
| Hushed in the silent dews of night | A |
| The harp of Erin lies | B |
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| What though her thousand years have past | C |
| Of poets saints and kings | D |
| Her echoes only hear the last | C |
| That swept those golden strings | D |
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| Fling o'er his mound ye star lit bowers | E |
| The balmiest wreaths ye wear | F |
| Whose breath has lent your earth born flowers | E |
| Heaven's own ambrosial air | F |
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| Breathe bird of night thy softest tone | G |
| By shadowy grove and rill | H |
| Thy song will soothe us while we own | G |
| That his was sweeter still | H |
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| Stay pitying Time thy foot for him | I |
| Who gave thee swifter wings | D |
| Nor let thine envious shadow dim | I |
| The light his glory flings | D |
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| If in his cheek unholy blood | J |
| Burned for one youthful hour | K |
| 'T was but the flushing of the bud | J |
| That blooms a milk white flower | K |
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| Take him kind mother to thy breast | L |
| Who loved thy smiles so well | M |
| And spread thy mantle o'er his rest | L |
| Of rose and asphodel | M |
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| The bark has sailed the midnight sea | N |
| The sea without a shore | O |
| That waved its parting sign to thee | N |
| 'A health to thee Tom Moore ' | - |
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| And thine long lingering on the strand | P |
| Its bright hued streamers furled | P |
| Was loosed by age with trembling hand | P |
| To seek the silent world | P |
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| Not silent no the radiant stars | Q |
| Still singing as they shine | R |
| Unheard through earth's imprisoning bars | Q |
| Have voices sweet as thine | R |
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| Wake then in happier realms above | S |
| The songs of bygone years | T |
| Till angels learn those airs of love | S |
| That ravished mortal ears | T |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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