Come, Chase That Starting Tear Away. (french Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDE FGFGHIHIE| Come chase that starting tear away | A |
| Ere mine to meet it springs | B |
| To night at least to night be gay | A |
| Whate'er to morrow brings | B |
| Like sunset gleams that linger late | C |
| When all is darkening fast | D |
| Are hours like these we snatch from Fate | C |
| The brightest and the last | D |
| Then chase that starting tear etc | E |
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| To gild the deepening gloom if Heaven | F |
| But one bright hour allow | G |
| Oh think that one bright hour is given | F |
| In all its splendor now | G |
| Let's live it out then sink in night | H |
| Like waves that from the shore | I |
| One minute swell are touched with light | H |
| Then lost for evermore | I |
| Come chase that starting tear etc | E |
Thomas Moore
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