To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEE AFGFGAH ABHBHII JBBBBKK JBLBLJJ JBLBMJJ| I | A |
| Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed | B |
| Yes I was firm thus wert not thou | C |
| My baffled looks did fear yet dread | B |
| To meet thy looks I could not know | D |
| How anxiously they sought to shine | E |
| With soothing pity upon mine | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| To sit and curb the soul's mute rage | F |
| Which preys upon itself alone | G |
| To curse the life which is the cage | F |
| Of fettered grief that dares not groan | G |
| Hiding from many a careless eye | A |
| The scorn d load of agony | H |
| - | |
| III | A |
| Whilst thou alone then not regarded | B |
| The thou alone should be | H |
| To spend years thus and be rewarded | B |
| As thou sweet love requited me | H |
| When none were near Oh I did wake | I |
| From torture for that moment's sake | I |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| Upon my heart thy accents sweet | B |
| Of peace and pity fell like dew | B |
| On flowers half dead thy lips did meet | B |
| Mine tremblingly thy dark eyes threw | B |
| Their soft persuasion on my brain | K |
| Charming away its dream of pain | K |
| - | |
| V | J |
| We are not happy sweet our state | B |
| Is strange and full of doubt and fear | L |
| More need of words that ills abate | B |
| Reserve or censure come not near | L |
| Our sacred friendship lest there be | J |
| No solace left for thee and me | J |
| - | |
| VI | J |
| Gentle and good and mild thou art | B |
| Nor can I live if thou appear | L |
| Aught but thyself or turn thine heart | B |
| Away from me or stoop to wear | M |
| The mask of scorn although it be | J |
| To hide the love thou feel'st for me | J |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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