To Harriet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HGHGII JKJKLL MIMINO| Thy look of love has power to calm | A |
| The stormiest passion of my soul | B |
| Thy gentle words are drops of balm | A |
| In life's too bitter bowl | B |
| No grief is mine but that alone | C |
| These choicest blessings I have known | C |
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| Harriet if all who long to live | D |
| In the warm sunshine of thine eye | E |
| That price beyond all pain must give | F |
| Beneath thy scorn to die | E |
| Then hear thy chosen own too late | G |
| His heart most worthy of thy hate | G |
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| Be thou then one among mankind | H |
| Whose heart is harder not for state | G |
| Thou only virtuous gentle kind | H |
| Amid a world of hate | G |
| And by a slight endurance seal | I |
| A fellow being's lasting weal | I |
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| For pale with anguish is his cheek | J |
| His breath comes fast his eyes are dim | K |
| Thy name is struggling ere he speak | J |
| Weak is each trembling limb | K |
| In mercy let him not endure | L |
| The misery of a fatal cure | L |
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| Oh trust for once no erring guide | M |
| Bid the remorseless feeling flee | I |
| 'Tis malice 'tis revenge 'tis pride | M |
| 'Tis anything but thee | I |
| Oh deign a nobler pride to prove | N |
| And pity if thou canst not love | O |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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