Love And The Sun-dial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD AAEEAA FGHIJJ| Young Love found a Dial once in a dark shade | A |
| Where man ne'er had wandered nor sunbeam played | A |
| Why thus in darkness lie whispered young Love | B |
| Thou whose gay hours in sunshine should move | C |
| I ne'er said the Dial have seen the warm sun | D |
| So noonday and midnight to me Love are one | D |
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| Then Love took the Dial away from the shade | A |
| And placed her where Heaven's beam warmly played | A |
| There she reclined beneath Love's gazing eye | E |
| While marked all with sunshine her hours flew by | E |
| Oh how said the Dial can any fair maid | A |
| That's born to be shone upon rest in the shade | A |
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| But night now comes on and the sunbeam's o'er | F |
| And Love stops to gaze on the Dial no more | G |
| Alone and neglected while bleak rain and winds | H |
| Are storming around her with sorrow she finds | I |
| That Love had but numbered a few sunny hours | J |
| Then left the remainder to darkness and showers | J |
Thomas Moore
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