Duty Surviving Self-love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCEFEG| Unchanged within to see all changed without | A |
| Is a blank lot and hard to bear no doubt | A |
| Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou fret | B |
| Then only might'st thou feel a just regret | B |
| Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light | C |
| In selfish forethought of neglect and slight | C |
| O wiselier then from feeble yearnings freed | D |
| While and on whom thou may'st shine on nor heed | D |
| Whether the object by reflected light | C |
| Return thy radiance or absorb it quite | C |
| And tho' thou notest from thy safe recess | E |
| Old Friends burn dim like lamps in noisome air | F |
| Love them for what they are nor love them less | E |
| Because to thee they are not what they were | G |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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