The Sigh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDD AEEFFDD ACCAADD GHHIJDD| I | A |
| When youth his fairy reign began | B |
| Ere sorrow had proclaimed me man | B |
| While peace the present hour beguiled | C |
| And all the lovely prospect smiled | C |
| Then Mary 'mid my lightsome glee | D |
| I heaved the painless sigh for thee | D |
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| II | A |
| And when as tossed on waves of woe | E |
| My harassed heart was doomed to know | E |
| The frantic burst the outrage keen | F |
| And the slow pang that gnaws unseen | F |
| Then shipwrecked on life's stormy sea | D |
| I heaved an anguish'd sigh for thee | D |
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| III | A |
| But soon reflection's power imprest | C |
| A stiller sadness on my breast | C |
| And sickly hope with waning eye | A |
| Was well content to droop and die | A |
| I yielded to the stern decree | D |
| Yet heaved a languid sigh for thee | D |
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| IV | G |
| And tho' in distant climes to roam | H |
| A wanderer from my native home | H |
| I feign would soothe the sense of care | I |
| And lull to sleep the joys that were | J |
| Thy image may not banished be | D |
| Still Mary still I sigh for thee | D |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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