The Fortune-teller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG AHAH IJIJ| Down in the valley come meet me to night | A |
| And I'll tell you your fortune truly | B |
| As ever 'twas told by the new moon's light | A |
| To a young maiden shining as newly | B |
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| But for the world let no one be nigh | C |
| Lest haply the stars should deceive me | B |
| Such secrets between you and me and the sky | C |
| Should never go farther believe me | B |
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| If at that hour the heavens be not dim | D |
| My science shall call up before you | E |
| A male apparition the image of him | D |
| Whose destiny 'tis to adore you | E |
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| And if to that phantom you'll be kind | F |
| So fondly around you he'll hover | G |
| You'll hardly my dear any difference find | F |
| 'Twixt him and a true living lover | G |
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| Down at your feet in the pale moonlight | A |
| He'll kneel with a warmth of devotion | H |
| An ardour of which such an innocent sprite | A |
| You'd scarcely believe had a notion | H |
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| What other thoughts and events may arise | I |
| As in destiny's book I've not seen them | J |
| Must only be left to the stars and your eyes | I |
| To settle ere morning between them | J |
Thomas Moore
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