The Drowned Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDDE AFDF GGGD AHIHIGGGI| I | A |
| Ah faint are her limbs and her footstep is weary | B |
| Yet far must the desolate wanderer roam | C |
| Though the tempest is stern and the mountain is dreary | B |
| She must quit at deep midnight her pitiless home | C |
| I see her swift foot dash the dew from the whortle | D |
| As she rapidly hastes to the green grove of myrtle | D |
| And I hear as she wraps round her figure the kirtle | D |
| 'Stay thy boat on the lake dearest Henry I come ' | E |
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| II | A |
| High swelled in her bosom the throb of affection | F |
| As lightly her form bounded over the lea | D |
| And arose in her mind every dear recollection | F |
| 'I come dearest Henry and wait but for thee ' | - |
| How sad when dear hope every sorrow is soothing | G |
| When sympathy's swell the soft bosom is moving | G |
| And the mind the mild joys of affection is proving | G |
| Is the stern voice of fate that bids happiness flee | D |
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| III | A |
| Oh dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve | H |
| And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air | I |
| Oh how could fond visions such softness deceive | H |
| Oh how could false hope rend a bosom so fair | I |
| Thy love's pallid corse the wild surges are laving | G |
| O'er his form the fierce swell of the tempest is raving | G |
| But fear not parting spirit thy goodness is saving | G |
| In eternity's bowers a seat for thee there | I |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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