To Miss Susan Beckford.[1] On Her Singing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMO APAPI more than once have heard at night | A |
A song like those thy lip hath given | B |
And it was sung by shapes of light | A |
Who looked and breathed like thee of heaven | B |
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But this was all a dream of sleep | C |
And I have said when morning shone | D |
Why should the night witch Fancy keep | C |
These wonders for herself alone | D |
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I knew not then that fate had lent | E |
Such tones to one of mortal birth | F |
I knew not then that Heaven had sent | E |
A voice a form like thine on earth | F |
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And yet in all that flowery maze | G |
Through which my path of life has led | H |
When I have heard the sweetest lays | G |
From lips of rosiest lustre shed | H |
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When I have felt the warbled word | I |
From Beauty's lip in sweetness vying | J |
With music's own melodious bird | I |
When on the rose's bosom lying | J |
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Though form and song at once combined | K |
Their loveliest bloom and softest thrill | L |
My heart hath sighed my ear hath pined | K |
For something lovelier softer still | L |
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Oh I have found it all at last | M |
In thee thou sweetest living lyre | N |
Through which the soul of song e'er past | M |
Or feeling breathed its sacred fire | O |
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All that I e'er in wildest flight | A |
Of fancy's dreams could hear or see | P |
Of music's sigh or beauty's light | A |
Is realized at once in thee | P |
Thomas Moore
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