To Mrs. Bl---- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMG OBOB GPNP PQPQ RSRS CSCS SSSS TNTN NSGS CSCS| WRITTEN IN HER ALBUM | A |
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| They say that Love had once a book | B |
| The urchin likes to copy you | C |
| Where all who came the pencil took | B |
| And wrote like us a line or two | C |
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| 'Twas Innocence the maid divine | D |
| Who kept this volume bright and fair | E |
| And saw that no unhallowed line | D |
| Or thought profane should enter there | E |
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| And daily did the pages fill | F |
| With fond device and loving lore | G |
| And every leaf she turned was still | F |
| More bright than that she turned before | G |
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| Beneath the touch of Hope how soft | H |
| How light the magic pencil ran | I |
| Till Fear would come alas as oft | J |
| And trembling close what Hope began | I |
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| A tear or two had dropt from Grief | K |
| And Jealousy would now and then | L |
| Ruffle in haste some snow white leaf | K |
| Which Love had still to smooth again | L |
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| But ah there came a blooming boy | M |
| Who often turned the pages o'er | N |
| And wrote therein such words of joy | M |
| That all who read them sighed for more | G |
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| And Pleasure was this spirit's name | O |
| And though so soft his voice and look | B |
| Yet Innocence whene'er he came | O |
| Would tremble for her spotless book | B |
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| For oft a Bacchant cup he bore | G |
| With earth's sweet nectar sparkling bright | P |
| And much she feared lest mantling o'er | N |
| Some drops should on the pages light | P |
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| And so it chanced one luckless night | P |
| The urchin let that goblet fall | Q |
| O'er the fair book so pure so white | P |
| And sullied lines and marge and all | Q |
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| In vain now touched with shame he tried | R |
| To wash those fatal stains away | S |
| Deep deep had sunk the sullying tide | R |
| The leaves grew darker everyday | S |
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| And Fancy's sketches lost their hue | C |
| And Hope's sweet lines were all effaced | S |
| And Love himself now scarcely knew | C |
| What Love himself so lately traced | S |
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| At length the urchin Pleasure fled | S |
| For how alas could Pleasure stay | S |
| And Love while many a tear he shed | S |
| Reluctant flung the book away | S |
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| The index now alone remains | T |
| Of all the pages spoiled by Pleasure | N |
| And though it bears some earthly stains | T |
| Yet Memory counts the leaf a treasure | N |
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| And oft they say she scans it o'er | N |
| And oft by this memorial aided | S |
| Brings back the pages now no more | G |
| And thinks of lines that long have faded | S |
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| I know not if this tale be true | C |
| But thus the simple facts are stated | S |
| And I refer their truth to you | C |
| Since Love and you are near related | S |
Thomas Moore
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