Invocation To Misery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCC ABBDDE AFFGHH IJKLLM INNOOO IEEPPP IFFOOO IQQRRR MRRSSS MNNTTT MUUMMM MVVMMM MMMNNN| I | A |
| Come be happy sit near me | B |
| Shadow vested Misery | B |
| Coy unwilling silent bride | C |
| Mourning in thy robe of pride | C |
| Desolation deified | C |
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| II | A |
| Come be happy sit near me | B |
| Sad as I may seem to thee | B |
| I am happier far than thou | D |
| Lady whose imperial brow | D |
| Is endiademed with woe | E |
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| III | A |
| Misery we have known each other | F |
| Like a sister and a brother | F |
| Living in the same lone home | G |
| Many years we must live some | H |
| Hours or ages yet to come | H |
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| IV | I |
| Tis an evil lot and yet | J |
| Let us make the best of it | K |
| If love can live when pleasure dies | L |
| We two will love till in our eyes | L |
| This heart s Hell seem Paradise | M |
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| V | I |
| Come be happy lie thee down | N |
| On the fresh grass newly mown | N |
| Where the Grasshopper doth sing | O |
| Merrily one joyous thing | O |
| In a world of sorrowing | O |
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| VI | I |
| There our tent shall be the willow | E |
| And mine arm shall be thy pillow | E |
| Sounds and odours sorrowful | P |
| Because they once were sweet shall lull | P |
| Us to slumber deep and dull | P |
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| VII | I |
| Ha thy frozen pulses flutter | F |
| With a love thou darest not utter | F |
| Thou art murmuring thou art weeping | O |
| Is thine icy bosom leaping | O |
| While my burning heart lies sleeping | O |
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| VIII | I |
| Kiss me oh thy lips are cold | Q |
| Round my neck thine arms enfold | Q |
| They are soft but chill and dead | R |
| And thy tears upon my head | R |
| Burn like points of frozen lead | R |
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| IX | M |
| Hasten to the bridal bed | R |
| Underneath the grave tis spread | R |
| In darkness may our love be hid | S |
| Oblivion be our coverlid | S |
| We may rest and none forbid | S |
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| X | M |
| Clasp me till our hearts be grown | N |
| Like two shadows into one | N |
| Till this dreadful transport may | T |
| Like a vapour fade away | T |
| In the sleep that lasts alway | T |
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| XI | M |
| We may dream in that long sleep | U |
| That we are not those who weep | U |
| E en as Pleasure dreams of thee | M |
| Life deserting Misery | M |
| Thou mayst dream of her with me | M |
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| XII | M |
| Let us laugh and make our mirth | V |
| At the shadows of the earth | V |
| As dogs bay the moonlight clouds | M |
| Which like spectres wrapped in shrouds | M |
| Pass o er night in multitudes | M |
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| XIII | M |
| All the wide world beside us | M |
| Show like multitudinous | M |
| Puppets passing from a scene | N |
| What but mockery can they mean | N |
| Where I am where thou hast been | N |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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