To An Unfortunate Woman At The Theatre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LJLJ MNMN OPOP| Maiden that with sullen brow | A |
| Sitt'st behind those virgins gay | B |
| Like a scorched and mildew'd bough | A |
| Leafless mid the blooms of May | B |
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| Him who lured thee and forsook | C |
| Oft I watch'd with angry gaze | D |
| Fearful saw his pleading look | C |
| Anxious heard his fervid phrase | D |
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| Soft the glances of the youth | E |
| Soft his speech and soft his sigh | F |
| But no sound like simple truth | E |
| But no true love in his eye | F |
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| Loathing thy polluted lot | G |
| Hie thee maiden hie thee hence | H |
| Seek thy weeping mother's cot | G |
| With a wiser innocence | I |
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| Thou hast known deceit and folly | J |
| Thou hast felt that vice is woe | K |
| With a musing melancholy | J |
| Inly armed go maiden go | K |
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| Mother sage of self dominion | L |
| Firm thy steps O melancholy | J |
| The strongest plume in wisdom's pinion | L |
| Is the memory of past folly | J |
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| Mute the sky lark and forlorn | M |
| While she moults the firstling plumes | N |
| That had skimm'd the tender corn | M |
| Or the bean field's odorous blooms | N |
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| Soon with renovated wing | O |
| Shall she dare a loftier flight | P |
| Upward to the day star spring | O |
| And embathe in heavenly light | P |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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