Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFEGGEHE| Lift not the painted veil which those who live | A |
| Call Life though unreal shapes be pictured there | B |
| And it but mimic all we would believe | C |
| With colours idly spread behind lurk Fear | D |
| And Hope twin Destinies who ever weave | C |
| Their shadows o'er the chasm sightless and drear | D |
| I knew one who had lifted it he sought | E |
| For his lost heart was tender things to love | F |
| But found them not alas nor was there aught | E |
| The world contains the which he could approve | G |
| Through the unheeding many he did move | G |
| A splendour among shadows a bright blot | E |
| Upon this gloomy scene a Spirit that strove | H |
| For truth and like the Preacher found it not | E |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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