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