The Tomb Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAA CDCDEFEF AGAGHIHJ| By the mossy weed flowered column | A |
| Where the setting moonbeam's glance | B |
| Streams a radiance cold and solemn | A |
| On the haunts of old romance | B |
| Know'st thou what those shafts betoken | A |
| Scattered on that tablet lone | A |
| Where the ivory bow lies broken | A |
| By the monumental stone | A |
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| When true knighthood's shield neglected | C |
| Mouldered in the empty hall | D |
| When the charms that shield protected | C |
| Slept in death's eternal thrall | D |
| When chivalric glory perished | E |
| Like the pageant of a dream | F |
| Love in vain its memory cherished | E |
| Fired in vain the minstrel's theme | F |
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| Falsehood to an elvish minion | A |
| Did the form of Love impart | G |
| Cunning plumed its vampire pinion | A |
| Avarice tipped its golden dart | G |
| Love the hideous phantom flying | H |
| Hither came no more to rove | I |
| There his broken bow is Iying | H |
| On that stone the tomb of Love | J |
Thomas Love Peacock
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