To Miss Susan Beckford.[1] On Her Singing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMO APAP

I more than once have heard at nightA
A song like those thy lip hath givenB
And it was sung by shapes of lightA
Who looked and breathed like thee of heavenB
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But this was all a dream of sleepC
And I have said when morning shoneD
Why should the night witch Fancy keepC
These wonders for herself aloneD
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I knew not then that fate had lentE
Such tones to one of mortal birthF
I knew not then that Heaven had sentE
A voice a form like thine on earthF
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And yet in all that flowery mazeG
Through which my path of life has ledH
When I have heard the sweetest laysG
From lips of rosiest lustre shedH
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When I have felt the warbled wordI
From Beauty's lip in sweetness vyingJ
With music's own melodious birdI
When on the rose's bosom lyingJ
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Though form and song at once combinedK
Their loveliest bloom and softest thrillL
My heart hath sighed my ear hath pinedK
For something lovelier softer stillL
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Oh I have found it all at lastM
In thee thou sweetest living lyreN
Through which the soul of song e'er pastM
Or feeling breathed its sacred fireO
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All that I e'er in wildest flightA
Of fancy's dreams could hear or seeP
Of music's sigh or beauty's lightA
Is realized at once in theeP

Thomas Moore



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