To A Lady, With Some Manuscript Poems, On Leaving The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI AJAJ KLKL MNMO PIPI| When casting many a look behind | A |
| I leave the friends I cherish here | B |
| Perchance some other friends to find | A |
| But surely finding none so dear | C |
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| Haply the little simple page | D |
| Which votive thus I've traced for thee | E |
| May now and then a look engage | D |
| And steal one moment's thought for me | E |
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| But oh in pity let not those | F |
| Whose hearts are not of gentle mould | G |
| Let not the eye that seldom flows | F |
| With feeling's tear my song behold | G |
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| For trust me they who never melt | H |
| With pity never melt with love | I |
| And such will frown at all I've felt | H |
| And all my loving lays reprove | I |
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| But if perhaps some gentler mind | A |
| Which rather loves to praise than blame | J |
| Should in my page an interest find | A |
| And linger kindly on my name | J |
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| Tell him or oh if gentler still | K |
| By female lips my name be blest | L |
| For where do all affections thrill | K |
| So sweetly as in woman's breast | L |
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| Tell her that he whose loving themes | M |
| Her eye indulgent wanders o'er | N |
| Could sometimes wake from idle dreams | M |
| And bolder flights of fancy soar | O |
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| That Glory oft would claim the lay | P |
| And Friendship oft his numbers move | I |
| But whisper then that sooth to say | P |
| His sweetest song was given to Love | I |
Thomas Moore
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