A Warning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFGGHHIIJJKKKLLMMN NOOPPIIEE| TO | A |
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| Oh fair as heaven and chaste as light | B |
| Did nature mould thee all so bright | B |
| That thou shouldst e'er be brought to weep | C |
| O'er languid virtue's fatal sleep | C |
| O'er shame extinguished honor fled | D |
| Peace lost heart withered feeling dead | D |
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| No no a star was born with thee | E |
| Which sheds eternal purity | E |
| Thou hast within those sainted eyes | F |
| So fair a transcript of the skies | F |
| In lines of light such heavenly lore | G |
| That men should read them and adore | G |
| Yet have I known a gentle maid | H |
| Whose mind and form were both arrayed | H |
| In nature's purest light like thine | I |
| Who wore that clear celestial sign | I |
| Which seems to mark the brow that's fair | J |
| For destiny's peculiar care | J |
| Whose bosom too like Dian's own | K |
| Was guarded by a sacred zone | K |
| Where the bright gem of virtue shone | K |
| Whose eyes had in their light a charm | L |
| Against all wrong and guile and harm | L |
| Yet hapless maid in one sad hour | M |
| These spells have lost their guardian power | M |
| The gem has been beguiled away | N |
| Her eyes have lost their chastening ray | N |
| The modest pride the guiltless shame | O |
| The smiles that from reflection came | O |
| All all have fled and left her mind | P |
| A faded monument behind | P |
| The ruins of a once pure shrine | I |
| No longer fit for guest divine | I |
| Oh 'twas a sight I wept to see | E |
| Heaven keep the lost one's fate from thee | E |
Thomas Moore
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