Lines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIIIEIE KLKLEMEN| WHEN the lamp is shatter'd | A |
| The light in the dust lies dead | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When the cloud is scatter'd | A |
| The rainbow's glory is shed | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When the lute is broken | C |
| Sweet tones are remember'd not | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When the lips have spoken | C |
| Loved accents are soon forgot | D |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp As music and splendour | E |
| Survive not the lamp and the lute | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The heart's echoes render | E |
| No song when the spirit is mute | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No song but sad dirges | G |
| Like the wind through a ruin'd cell | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or the mournful surges | G |
| That ring the dead seaman's knell | H |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp When hearts have once mingled | I |
| Love first leaves the well built nest | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The weak one is singled | I |
| To endure what it once possest | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp O Love who bewailest | I |
| The frailty of all things here | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Why choose you the frailest | I |
| For your cradle your home and your bier | E |
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| nbsp nbsp nbsp Its passions will rock thee | K |
| As the storms rock the ravens on high | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Bright reason will mock thee | K |
| Like the sun from a wintry sky | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From thy nest every rafter | E |
| Will rot and thine eagle home | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Leave thee naked to laughter | E |
| When leaves fall and cold winds come | N |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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