Song. To -- [harriet] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDDC EFEF DDDF GBGC H| Stern stern is the voice of fate's fearful command | A |
| When accents of horror it breathes in our ear | B |
| Or compels us for aye bid adieu to the land | A |
| Where exists that loved friend to our bosom so dear | C |
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| 'Tis sterner than death o er the shuddering wretch bending | D |
| And in skeleton grasp his fell sceptre extending | D |
| Like the heart stricken deer to that loved covert wending | D |
| Which never again to his eyes may appear | C |
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| And ah he may envy the heart stricken quarry | E |
| Who bids to the friend of affection farewell | F |
| He may envy the bosom so bleeding and gory | E |
| He may envy the sound of the drear passing knell | F |
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| Not so deep is his grief on his death couch reposing | D |
| When on the last vision his dim eyes are closing | D |
| As the outcast whose love raptured senses are losing | D |
| The last tones of thy voice on the wild breeze that swell | F |
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| Those tones were so soft and so sad that ah never | G |
| Can the sound cease to vibrate on Memory s ear | B |
| In the stern wreck of Nature for ever and ever | G |
| The remembrance must live of a friend so sincere | C |
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| AUGUST | H |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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