To Sophia (miss Stacey) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDE AFGHGII AHBHBHH JKCKCHH| I | A |
| Thou art fair and few are fairer | B |
| Of the Nymphs of earth or ocean | C |
| They are robes that fit the wearer | B |
| Those soft limbs of thine whose motion | C |
| Ever falls and shifts and glances | D |
| As the life within them dances | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| Thy deep eyes a double Planet | F |
| Gaze the wisest into madness | G |
| With soft clear fire the winds that fan it | H |
| Are those thoughts of tender gladness | G |
| Which like zephyrs on the billow | I |
| Make thy gentle soul their pillow | I |
| - | |
| III | A |
| If whatever face thou paintest | H |
| In those eyes grows pale with pleasure | B |
| If the fainting soul is faintest | H |
| When it hears thy harp s wild measure | B |
| Wonder not that when thou speakest | H |
| Of the weak my heart is weakest | H |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| As dew beneath the wind of morning | K |
| As the sea which whirlwinds waken | C |
| As the birds at thunder s warning | K |
| As aught mute yet deeply shaken | C |
| As one who feels an unseen spirit | H |
| Is my heart when thine is near it | H |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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