Lalla Rookh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEEFEFGHGHHHIH JEEKKLLMNONHPHPQRQRS HSHNMNNM| How sweetly said the trembling maid | A |
| Of her own gentle voice afraid | A |
| So long had they in silence stood | B |
| Looking upon that tranquil flood | C |
| How sweetly does the moon beam smile | D |
| To night upon yon leafy isle | D |
| Oft in my fancy's wanderings | E |
| I've wish'd that little isle had wings | E |
| And we within its fairy bow'rs | E |
| Were wafted off to seas unknown | F |
| Where not a pulse should beat but ours | E |
| And we might live love die alone | F |
| Far from the cruel and the cold | G |
| Where the bright eyes of angels only | H |
| Should come around us to behold | G |
| A paradise so pure and lonely | H |
| Would this be world enough for thee | H |
| Playful she turn'd that he might see | H |
| The passing smile her cheek put on | I |
| But when she mark'd how mournfully | H |
| His eyes met hers that smile was gone | J |
| And bursting into heart felt tears | E |
| Yes yes she cried my hourly fears | E |
| My dreams have boded all too right | K |
| We part for ever part to night | K |
| I knew I knew it could not last | L |
| 'Twas bright 'twas heav'nly but 'tis past | L |
| Oh ever thus from childhood's hour | M |
| I've seen my fondest hopes decay | N |
| I never lov'd a tree or flow'r | O |
| But 'twas the first to fade away | N |
| I never nurs'd a dear gazelle | H |
| To glad me with its soft black eye | P |
| But when it came to know me well | H |
| And love me it was sure to die | P |
| Now too the joy most like divine | Q |
| Of all I ever dreamt or knew | R |
| To see thee hear thee call thee mine | Q |
| Oh misery must I lose that too | R |
| Yet go on peril's brink we meet | S |
| Those frightful rocks that treach'rous sea | H |
| No never come again though sweet | S |
| Though heav'n it may be death to thee | H |
| Farewell and blessings on thy way | N |
| Where'er thou goest beloved stranger | M |
| Better to sit and watch that ray | N |
| And think thee safe though far away | N |
| Than have thee near me and in danger | M |
Thomas Moore
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