A Study From The Antique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LHLH MNMN OJOJ PQPR ESEES TUTTU VWVVW MOMMO| Behold my love the curious gem | A |
| Within this simple ring of gold | B |
| 'Tis hallow'd by the touch of them | A |
| Who lived in classic hours of old | B |
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| Some fair Athenian girl perhaps | C |
| Upon her hand this gem displayed | D |
| Nor thought that time's succeeding lapse | C |
| Should see it grace a lovelier maid | D |
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| Look dearest what a sweet design | E |
| The more we gaze it charms the more | F |
| Come closer bring that cheek to mine | E |
| And trace with me its beauties o'er | G |
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| Thou seest it is a simple youth | H |
| By some enamored nymph embraced | I |
| Look as she leans and say in sooth | H |
| Is not that hand most fondly placed | I |
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| Upon his curled head behind | J |
| It seems in careless play to lie | K |
| Yet presses gently half inclined | J |
| To bring the truant's lip more nigh | K |
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| Oh happy maid Too happy boy | L |
| The one so fond and little loath | H |
| The other yielding slow to joy | L |
| Oh rare indeed but blissful both | H |
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| Imagine love that I am he | M |
| And just as warm as he is chilling | N |
| Imagine too that thou art she | M |
| But quite as coy as she is willing | N |
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| So may we try the graceful way | O |
| In which their gentle arms are twined | J |
| And thus like her my hand I lay | O |
| Upon thy wreathed locks behind | J |
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| And thus I feel thee breathing sweet | P |
| As slow to mine thy head I move | Q |
| And thus our lips together meet | P |
| And thus and thus I kiss thee love | R |
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| There's not a look a word of thine | E |
| My soul hath e'er forgot | S |
| Thou ne'er hast bid a ringlet shine | E |
| Nor given thy locks one graceful twine | E |
| Which I remember not | S |
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| There never yet a murmur fell | T |
| From that beguiling tongue | U |
| Which did not with a lingering spell | T |
| Upon thy charmed senses dwell | T |
| Like songs from Eden sung | U |
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| Ah that I could at once forget | V |
| All all that haunts me so | W |
| And yet thou witching girl and yet | V |
| To die were sweeter than to let | V |
| The loved remembrance go | W |
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| No if this slighted heart must see | M |
| Its faithful pulse decay | O |
| Oh let it die remembering thee | M |
| And like the burnt aroma be | M |
| Consumed in sweets away | O |
Thomas Moore
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