Song For 'tasso' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEEE AFFGBHHH AIIJJKKK| I | A |
| I loved alas our life is love | B |
| But when we cease to breathe and move | C |
| I do suppose love ceases too | D |
| I thought but not as now I do | D |
| Keen thoughts and bright of linked lore | E |
| Of all that men had thought before | E |
| And all that Nature shows and more | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| And still I love and still I think | F |
| But strangely for my heart can drink | F |
| The dregs of such despair and live | G |
| And love | B |
| And if I think my thoughts come fast | H |
| I mix the present with the past | H |
| And each seems uglier than the last | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Sometimes I see before me flee | I |
| A silver spirit s form like thee | I |
| O Leonora and I sit | J |
| still watching it | J |
| Till by the grated casement s ledge | K |
| It fades with such a sigh as sedge | K |
| Breathes o er the breezy streamlet s edge | K |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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