Elegiac Stanzas. Supposed To Be Written By Julia, On The Death Of Her Brother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JFJF KLML NONO PQPQ RERE STST| Though sorrow long has worn my heart | A |
| Though every day I've counted o'er | B |
| Hath brought a new and quickening smart | A |
| To wounds that rankled fresh before | C |
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| Though in my earliest life bereft | D |
| Of tender links by nature tied | E |
| Though hope deceived and pleasure left | D |
| Though friends betrayed and foes belied | E |
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| I still had hopes for hope will stay | F |
| After the sunset of delight | G |
| So like the star which ushers day | F |
| We scarce can think it heralds night | G |
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| I hoped that after all its strife | H |
| My weary heart at length should rest | I |
| And feinting from the waves of life | H |
| Find harbor in a brother's breast | I |
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| That brother's breast was warm with truth | J |
| Was bright with honor's purest ray | F |
| He was the dearest gentlest youth | J |
| Ah why then was he torn away | F |
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| He should have stayed have lingered here | K |
| To soothe his Julia's every woe | L |
| He should have chased each bitter tear | M |
| And not have caused those tears to flow | L |
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| We saw within his soul expand | N |
| The fruits of genius nurst by taste | O |
| While Science with a fostering hand | N |
| Upon his brow her chaplet placed | O |
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| We saw by bright degrees his mind | P |
| Grow rich in all that makes men dear | Q |
| Enlightened social and refined | P |
| In friendship firm in love sincere | Q |
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| Such was the youth we loved so well | R |
| And such the hopes that fate denied | E |
| We loved but ah could scarcely tell | R |
| How deep how dearly till he died | E |
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| Close as the fondest links could strain | S |
| Twined with my very heart he grew | T |
| And by that fate which breaks the chain | S |
| The heart is almost broken too | T |
Thomas Moore
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