To Edward Williams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDEFG AHIJIHKLM AEAEAEANN OPQPRPRST OTU USUVW OXYXYXYZZ OA2B2A2C2A2B2D2D2I | 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 |
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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 |
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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Should quickly perish if it were withdrawn | N |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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