To Lord Viscount Strangford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDEEFFGG HHIIJKJKLMLMNNOO PPQQRRSTSTUVUV WWXYXYZA2ZB2C2D2C2D2 E2AE2AF2F2 G2MG2MH2I2H2I2J2K2J2 K2LL2LL2M2N2J2N2 O2O2FFJ2J2| ABOARD THE PHAETON FRIGATE OFF THE AZORES BY MOONLIGHT | A |
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| Sweet Moon if like Crotona's sage | B |
| By any spell my hand could dare | C |
| To make thy disk its ample page | B |
| And write my thoughts my wishes there | C |
| How many a friend whose careless eye | D |
| Now wanders o'er that starry sky | D |
| Should smile upon thy orb to meet | E |
| The recollection kind and sweet | E |
| The reveries of fond regret | F |
| The promise never to forget | F |
| And all my heart and soul would send | G |
| To many a dear loved distant friend | G |
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| How little when we parted last | H |
| I thought those pleasant times were past | H |
| For ever past when brilliant joy | I |
| Was all my vacant heart's employ | I |
| When fresh from mirth to mirth again | J |
| We thought the rapid hours too few | K |
| Our only use for knowledge then | J |
| To gather bliss from all we knew | K |
| Delicious days of whim and soul | L |
| When mingling lore and laugh together | M |
| We leaned the book on Pleasure's bowl | L |
| And turned the leaf with Folly's feather | M |
| Little I thought that all were fled | N |
| That ere that summer's bloom was shed | N |
| My eye should see the sail unfurled | O |
| That wafts me to the western world | O |
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| And yet 'twas time in youth's sweet days | P |
| To cool that season's glowing rays | P |
| The heart awhile with wanton wing | Q |
| May dip and dive in Pleasure's spring | Q |
| But if it wait for winter's breeze | R |
| The spring will chill the heart will freeze | R |
| And then that Hope that fairy Hope | S |
| Oh she awaked such happy dreams | T |
| And gave my soul such tempting scope | S |
| For all its dearest fondest schemes | T |
| That not Verona's child of song | U |
| When flying from the Phrygian shore | V |
| With lighter heart could bound along | U |
| Or pant to be a wanderer more | V |
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| Even now delusive hope will steal | W |
| Amid the dark regrets I feel | W |
| Soothing as yonder placid beam | X |
| Pursues the murmurers of the deep | Y |
| And lights them with consoling gleam | X |
| And smiles them into tranquil sleep | Y |
| Oh such a blessed night as this | Z |
| I often think if friends were near | A2 |
| How we should feel and gaze with bliss | Z |
| Upon the moon bright scenery here | B2 |
| The sea is like a silvery lake | C2 |
| And o'er its calm the vessel glides | D2 |
| Gently as if it feared to wake | C2 |
| The slumber of the silent tides | D2 |
| The only envious cloud that lowers | E2 |
| Hath hung its shade on Pico's height | A |
| Where dimly mid the dusk he towers | E2 |
| And scowling at this heaven of light | A |
| Exults to see the infant storm | F2 |
| Cling darkly round his giant form | F2 |
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| Now could I range those verdant isles | G2 |
| Invisible at this soft hour | M |
| And see the looks the beaming smiles | G2 |
| That brighten many an orange bower | M |
| And could I lift each pious veil | H2 |
| And see the blushing cheek it shades | I2 |
| Oh I should have full many a tale | H2 |
| To tell of young Azorian maids | I2 |
| Yes Strangford at this hour perhaps | J2 |
| Some lover not too idly blest | K2 |
| Like those who in their ladies' laps | J2 |
| May cradle every wish to rest | K2 |
| Warbles to touch his dear one's soul | L |
| Those madrigals of breath divine | L2 |
| Which Camoens' harp from Rapture stole | L |
| And gave all glowing warm to thine | L2 |
| Oh could the lover learn from thee | M2 |
| And breathe them with thy graceful tone | N2 |
| Such sweet beguiling minstrelsy | J2 |
| Would make the coldest nymph his own | N2 |
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| But hark the boatswain's pipings tell | O2 |
| 'Tis time to bid my dream farewell | O2 |
| Eight bells the middle watch is set | F |
| Good night my Strangford ne'er forget | F |
| That far beyond the western sea | J2 |
| Is one whose heart remembers thee | J2 |
Thomas Moore
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