Cupid And Psyche Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC DADA DEDE AFAF DGDG DHDI JAJA| They told her that he to whose vows she had listened | A |
| Thro' night's fleeting hours was a spirit unblest | A |
| Unholy the eyes that beside her had glistened | A |
| And evil the lips she in darkness had prest | A |
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| When next in thy chamber the bridegroom reclineth | B |
| Bring near him thy lamp when in slumber he lies | C |
| And there as the light o'er his dark features shineth | B |
| Thou'lt see what a demon hath won all thy sighs | C |
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| Too fond to believe them yet doubting yet fearing | D |
| When calm lay the sleeper she stole with her light | A |
| And saw such a vision no image appearing | D |
| To bards in their day dreams was ever so bright | A |
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| A youth but just passing from childhood's sweet morning | D |
| While round him still lingered its innocent ray | E |
| Tho' gleams from beneath his shut eyelids gave warning | D |
| Of summer noon lightnings that under them lay | E |
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| His brow had a grace more than mortal around it | A |
| While glossy as gold from a fairy land mine | F |
| His sunny hair hung and the flowers that crowned it | A |
| Seemed fresh from the breeze of some garden divine | F |
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| Entranced stood the bride on that miracle gazing | D |
| What late was but love is idolatry now | G |
| But ah in her tremor the fatal lamp raising | D |
| A sparkle flew from it and dropt on his brow | G |
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| All's lost with a start from his rosy sleep waking | D |
| The Spirit flashed o'er her his glances of fire | H |
| Then slow from the clasp of her snowy arms breaking | D |
| Thus said in a voice more of sorrow than ire | I |
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| Farewell what a dream thy suspicion hath broken | J |
| Thus ever Affection's fond vision is crost | A |
| Dissolved are her spells when a doubt is but spoken | J |
| And love once distrusted for ever is lost | A |
Thomas Moore
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