Desmond's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFHIDID IJIJKLKL IBIBMNON| By the Feal's wave benighted | A |
| No star in the skies | B |
| To thy door by Love lighted | C |
| I first saw those eyes | B |
| Some voice whisper'd o'er me | D |
| As the threshold I cross'd | E |
| There was ruin before me | D |
| If I loved I was lost | E |
| - | |
| Love came and brought sorrow | F |
| Too soon in his train | G |
| Yet so sweet that to morrow | F |
| 'Twere welcome again | H |
| Though misery's full measure | I |
| My portion should be | D |
| I would drain it with pleasure | I |
| If pour'd out by thee | D |
| - | |
| You who call it dishonour | I |
| To bow to this flame | J |
| If you've eyes look but on her | I |
| And blush while you blame | J |
| Hath the pearl less whiteness | K |
| Because of its birth | L |
| Hath the violet less brightness | K |
| For growing near earth | L |
| - | |
| No Man for his glory | I |
| To ancestry flies | B |
| But Woman's bright story | I |
| Is told in her eyes | B |
| While the Monarch but traces | M |
| Through mortals his line | N |
| Beauty born of the Graces | O |
| Ranks next to Divine | N |
Thomas Moore
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