To Edward Williams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDEFG AHIJIHKLM AEAEAEANN OPQPRPRST OTU USUVW OXYXYXYZZ OA2B2A2C2A2B2D2D2| I | A |
| The serpent is shut out from Paradise | B |
| The wounded deer must seek the herb no more | C |
| In which its heart cure lies | D |
| The widowed dove must cease to haunt a bower | E |
| Like that from which its mate with feigned sighs | D |
| Fled in the April hour | E |
| I too must seldom seek again | F |
| Near happy friends a mitigated pain | G |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Of hatred I am proud with scorn content | H |
| Indifference that once hurt me now is grown | I |
| Itself indifferent | J |
| But not to speak of love pity alone | I |
| Can break a spirit already more than bent | H |
| The miserable one | K |
| Turns the mind s poison into food | L |
| Its medicine is tears its evil good | M |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Therefore if now I see you seldomer | E |
| Dear friends dear FRIEND know that I only fly | A |
| Your looks because they stir | E |
| Griefs that should sleep and hopes that cannot die | A |
| The very comfort that they minister | E |
| I scarce can bear yet I | A |
| So deeply is the arrow gone | N |
| Should quickly perish if it were withdrawn | N |
| - | |
| IV | O |
| When I return to my cold home you ask | P |
| Why I am not as I have ever been | Q |
| YOU spoil me for the task | P |
| Of acting a forced part in life's dull scene | R |
| Of wearing on my brow the idle mask | P |
| Of author great or mean | R |
| In the world's carnival I sought | S |
| Peace thus and but in you I found it not | T |
| - | |
| V | O |
| Full half an hour to day I tried my lot | T |
| With various flowers and every one still said | U |
| 'She loves me loves me not ' | - |
| And if this meant a vision long since fled | U |
| If it meant fortune fame or peace of thought | S |
| If it meant but I dread | U |
| To speak what you may know too well | V |
| Still there was truth in the sad oracle | W |
| - | |
| VI | O |
| The crane o'er seas and forests seeks her home | X |
| No bird so wild but has its quiet nest | Y |
| When it no more would roam | X |
| The sleepless billows on the ocean s breast | Y |
| Break like a bursting heart and die in foam | X |
| And thus at length find rest | Y |
| Doubtless there is a place of peace | Z |
| Where MY weak heart and all its throbs will cease | Z |
| - | |
| VII | O |
| I asked her yesterday if she believed | A2 |
| That I had resolution One who HAD | B2 |
| Would ne er have thus relieved | A2 |
| His heart with words but what his judgement bade | C2 |
| Would do and leave the scorner unrelieved | A2 |
| These verses are too sad | B2 |
| To send to you but that I know | D2 |
| Happy yourself you feel another s woe | D2 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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