Epithalamium : Another Version Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDB E FFGBBBBDDDB H FFGBGBGDDDB H FFGNight with all thine eyes look down | A |
Darkness shed its holiest dew | B |
When ever smiled the inconstant moon | C |
On a pair so true | B |
Hence coy hour and quench thy light | D |
Lest eyes see their own delight | D |
Hence swift hour and thy loved flight | D |
Oft renew | B |
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BOYS | E |
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O joy O fear what may be done | F |
In the absence of the sun | F |
Come along | G |
The golden gates of sleep unbar | B |
When strength and beauty meet together | B |
Kindles their image like a star | B |
In a sea of glassy weather | B |
Hence coy hour and quench thy light | D |
Lest eyes see their own delight | D |
Hence swift hour and thy loved flight | D |
Oft renew | B |
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GIRLS | H |
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O joy O fear what may be done | F |
In the absence of the sun | F |
Come along | G |
Fairies sprites and angels keep her | B |
Holiest powers permit no wrong | G |
And return to wake the sleeper | B |
Dawn ere it be long | G |
Hence swift hour and quench thy light | D |
Lest eyes see their own delight | D |
Hence coy hour and thy loved flight | D |
Oft renew | B |
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BOYS AND GIRLS | H |
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O joy O fear what will be done | F |
In the absence of the sun | F |
Come along | G |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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