To Edward Williams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDEFG AHIJIHKLM AEAEAEANN OPQPRPRST OTU USUVW OXYXYXYZZ OA2B2A2C2A2B2D2D2

IA
The serpent is shut out from ParadiseB
The wounded deer must seek the herb no moreC
In which its heart cure liesD
The widowed dove must cease to haunt a bowerE
Like that from which its mate with feigned sighsD
Fled in the April hourE
I too must seldom seek againF
Near happy friends a mitigated painG
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IIA
Of hatred I am proud with scorn contentH
Indifference that once hurt me now is grownI
Itself indifferentJ
But not to speak of love pity aloneI
Can break a spirit already more than bentH
The miserable oneK
Turns the mind s poison into foodL
Its medicine is tears its evil goodM
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IIIA
Therefore if now I see you seldomerE
Dear friends dear FRIEND know that I only flyA
Your looks because they stirE
Griefs that should sleep and hopes that cannot dieA
The very comfort that they ministerE
I scarce can bear yet IA
So deeply is the arrow goneN
Should quickly perish if it were withdrawnN
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IVO
When I return to my cold home you askP
Why I am not as I have ever beenQ
YOU spoil me for the taskP
Of acting a forced part in life's dull sceneR
Of wearing on my brow the idle maskP
Of author great or meanR
In the world's carnival I soughtS
Peace thus and but in you I found it notT
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VO
Full half an hour to day I tried my lotT
With various flowers and every one still saidU
'She loves me loves me not '-
And if this meant a vision long since fledU
If it meant fortune fame or peace of thoughtS
If it meant but I dreadU
To speak what you may know too wellV
Still there was truth in the sad oracleW
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VIO
The crane o'er seas and forests seeks her homeX
No bird so wild but has its quiet nestY
When it no more would roamX
The sleepless billows on the ocean s breastY
Break like a bursting heart and die in foamX
And thus at length find restY
Doubtless there is a place of peaceZ
Where MY weak heart and all its throbs will ceaseZ
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VIIO
I asked her yesterday if she believedA2
That I had resolution One who HADB2
Would ne er have thus relievedA2
His heart with words but what his judgement badeC2
Would do and leave the scorner unrelievedA2
These verses are too sadB2
To send to you but that I knowD2
Happy yourself you feel another s woeD2

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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