The Broken Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCG HCHIOh think not with love's soft token | A |
Or music my heart to thrill | B |
For its strings its strings are broken | A |
And the chords would fain be still | B |
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Oh think not to waken the measure | C |
Of joy on a ruined lute | D |
Think not to waken pleasure | C |
Where grief sits mourning and mute | D |
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The pearls that gleam in the billow | E |
But darken the gloom of the deep | F |
And laughter plants the pillow | E |
With thorns where sorrow would sleep | F |
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The gems that gleam on the finger | C |
Of her who is sleeping and cold | G |
But wring the hearts that linger | C |
And dream of the love they told | G |
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My bosom is but a grave | H |
My breast a voiceless choir | C |
Speak not to the echoless cave | H |
Touch not the broken lyre | I |
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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