To ......., 1801 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK AAGGLLMMNNKKOODD| To be the theme of every hour | A |
| The heart devotes to Fancy's power | A |
| When her prompt magic fills the mind | B |
| With friends and joys we've left behind | B |
| And joys return and friends are near | C |
| And all are welcomed with a tear | D |
| In the mind's purest seat to dwell | E |
| To be remembered oft and well | E |
| By one whose heart though vain and wild | F |
| By passion led by youth beguiled | F |
| Can proudly still aspire to be | G |
| All that may yet win smiles from thee | G |
| If thus to live in every part | H |
| Of a lone weary wanderer's heart | H |
| If thus to be its sole employ | I |
| Can give thee one faint gleam of joy | I |
| Believe it Mary oh believe | J |
| A tongue that never can deceive | J |
| Though erring it too oft betray | K |
| Even more than Love should dare to say | K |
| In Pleasure's dream or Sorrow's hour | A |
| In crowded hall or lonely bower | A |
| The business of my life shall be | G |
| For ever to remember thee | G |
| And though that heart be dead to mine | L |
| Since Love is life and wakes not thine | L |
| I'll take thy image as the form | M |
| Of one whom Love had failed to warm | M |
| Which though it yield no answering thrill | N |
| Is not less dear is worshipt still | N |
| I'll take it wheresoe'er I stray | K |
| The bright cold burden of my way | K |
| To keep this semblance fresh in bloom | O |
| My heart shall be its lasting tomb | O |
| And Memory with embalming care | D |
| Shall keep it fresh and fadeless there | D |
Thomas Moore
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