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 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 |
| - | |
| 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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