My Gentle Harp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD EFEFGHGH IJIJHKHK LHLHGDGD| My gentle Harp once more I waken | A |
| The sweetness of thy slumbering strain | B |
| In tears our last farewell was taken | A |
| And now in tears we meet again | C |
| No light of joy hath o'er thee broken | A |
| But like those harps whose heavenly skill | D |
| Of slavery dark as thine hath spoken | A |
| Thou hang'st upon the willows still | D |
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| And yet since last thy chord resounded | E |
| An hour of peace and triumph came | F |
| And many an ardent bosom bounded | E |
| With hopes that now are turn'd to shame | F |
| Yet even then while Peace was singing | G |
| Her halcyon song o'er land and sea | H |
| Though joy and hope to others bringing | G |
| She only brought new tears to thee | H |
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| Then who can ask for notes of pleasure | I |
| My drooping Harp from chords like thine | J |
| Alas the lark's gay morning measure | I |
| As ill would suit the swan's decline | J |
| Or how shall I who love who bless thee | H |
| Invoke thy breath for Freedom's strains | K |
| When even the wreaths in which I dress thee | H |
| Are sadly mix'd half flowers half chains | K |
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| But come if yet thy frame can borrow | L |
| One breath of joy oh breathe for me | H |
| And show the world in chains and sorrow | L |
| How sweet thy music still can be | H |
| How gaily even 'mid gloom surrounding | G |
| Thou yet canst wake at pleasure's thrill | D |
| Like Memnon's broken image sounding | G |
| 'Mid desolation tunefull still | D |
Thomas Moore
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