To A Lock Of Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KLMMNNNOOJJThy 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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