To A Lock Of Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMNNNOOJJ| Thy hue dear pledge is pure and bright | A |
| As in that well remember'd night | A |
| When first thy mystic braid was wove | B |
| And first my Agnes whisper'd love | C |
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| Since then how often hast thou prest | D |
| The torrid zone of this wild breast | D |
| Whose wrath and hate have sworn to dwell | E |
| With the first sin that peopled hell | E |
| A breast whose blood's a troubled ocean | F |
| Each throb the earthquake's wild commotion | F |
| O if such clime thou canst endure | G |
| Yet keep thy hue unstain'd and pure | G |
| What conquest o'er each erring thought | H |
| Of that fierce realm had Agnes wrought | H |
| I had not wander'd far and wide | I |
| With such an angel for my guide | I |
| Nor heaven nor earth could then reprove me | J |
| If she had lived and lived to love me | J |
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| Not then this world's wild joys had been | K |
| To me one savage hunting scene | L |
| My sole delight the headlong race | M |
| And frantic hurry of the chase | M |
| To start pursue and bring to bay | N |
| Rush in drag down and rend my prey | N |
| Then from the carcass turn away | N |
| Mine ireful mood had sweetness tamed | O |
| And soothed each wound which pride inflamed | O |
| Yes God and man might now approve me | J |
| If thou hadst lived and lived to love me | J |
Sir Walter Scott
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