To A Friend, In Answer To A Melancholy Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK| Away those cloudy looks that lab'ring sigh | A |
| The peevish offspring of a sickly hour | B |
| Nor meanly thus complain of fortune's power | B |
| When the blind gamester throws a luckless die | A |
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| Yon setting sun flashes a mournful gleam | C |
| Behind those broken clouds his stormy train | D |
| To morrow shall the many colord main | D |
| In brightness roll beneath his orient beam | C |
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| Wild as th' autumnal gust the hand of Time | E |
| Flies o'er his mystic lyre in shadowy dance | F |
| Th' alternate groups of joy and grief advance | F |
| Responsive to his varying strains sublime | E |
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| Bears on its wing each hour a load of fate | G |
| The swain who lulled by Seine's wild murmurs led | H |
| His weary oxen to their nightly shed | H |
| To day may rule a tempest troubled State | G |
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| Nor shall not fortune with a vengeful smile | I |
| Survey the sanguinary despot's might | J |
| And haply hurl the pageant from his height | J |
| Unwept to wander in some savage isle | I |
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| There shiv'ring sad beneath the tempest's frown | K |
| Round his tired limbs to wrap the purple vest | L |
| And mixed with nails and beads an equal jest | L |
| Barter for food the jewels of his crown | K |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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