Oh, Do Not Look So Bright And Blest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEABCB FGFGEHEIABCB| Oh do not look so bright and blest | A |
| For still there comes a fear | B |
| When brow like thine looks happiest | C |
| That grief is then most near | B |
| There lurks a dread in all delight | D |
| A shadow near each ray | E |
| That warns us then to fear their flight | D |
| When most we wish their stay | E |
| Then look not thou so bright and blest | A |
| For ah there comes a fear | B |
| When brow like thine looks happiest | C |
| That grief is then most near | B |
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| Why is it thus that fairest things | F |
| The soonest fleet and die | G |
| That when most light is on their wings | F |
| They're then but spread to fly | G |
| And sadder still the pain will stay | E |
| The bliss no more appears | H |
| As rainbows take their light away | E |
| And leave us but the tears | I |
| Then look not thou so bright and blest | A |
| For ah there comes a fear | B |
| When brow like thine looks happiest | C |
| That grief is then most near | B |
Thomas Moore
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