Rhymes On The Road. Extract X. Mantua Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEFEFGG HHIIJGJGDDKLKLFFMMNN OFOFPQ| Verses of Hippolyta to her Husband | A |
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| They tell me thou'rt the favored guest | B |
| Of every fair and brilliant throng | C |
| No wit like thine to wake the jest | B |
| No voice like thine to breathe the song | C |
| And none could guess so gay thou art | D |
| That thou and I are far apart | D |
| Alas alas how different flows | E |
| With thee and me the time away | F |
| Not that I wish thee sad heaven knows | E |
| Still if thou canst be light and gay | F |
| I only know that without thee | G |
| The sun himself is dark for me | G |
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| Do I put on the jewels rare | H |
| Thou'st always loved to see me wear | H |
| Do I perfume the locks that thou | I |
| So oft hast braided o'er my brow | I |
| Thus deckt thro' festive crowds to run | J |
| And all the assembled world to see | G |
| All but the one the absent one | J |
| Worth more than present worlds to me | G |
| No nothing cheers this widowed heart | D |
| My only joy from thee apart | D |
| From thee thyself is sitting hours | K |
| And days before thy pictured form | L |
| That dream of thee which Raphael's powers | K |
| Have made with all but life breath warm | L |
| And as I smile to it and say | F |
| The words I speak to thee in play | F |
| I fancy from their silent frame | M |
| Those eyes and lips give back the same | M |
| And still I gaze and still they keep | N |
| Smiling thus on me till I weep | N |
| Our little boy too knows it well | O |
| For there I lead him every day | F |
| And teach his lisping lips to tell | O |
| The name of one that's far away | F |
| Forgive me love but thus alone | P |
| My time is cheered while thou art gone | Q |
Thomas Moore
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