When On The Lip The Sigh Delays. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHDED IJIJEDED| When on the lip the sigh delays | A |
| As if 'twould linger there for ever | B |
| When eyes would give the world to gaze | A |
| Yet still look down and venture never | B |
| When tho' with fairest nymphs we rove | C |
| There's one we dream of more than any | D |
| If all this is not real love | E |
| 'Tis something wondrous like it Fanny | D |
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| To think and ponder when apart | F |
| On all we've got to say at meeting | G |
| And yet when near with heart to heart | F |
| Sit mute and listen to their beating | G |
| To see but one bright object move | H |
| The only moon where stars are many | D |
| If all this is not downright love | E |
| I prithee say what is my Fanny | D |
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| When Hope foretells the brightest best | I |
| Tho' Reason on the darkest reckons | J |
| When Passion drives us to the west | I |
| Tho' Prudence to the eastward beckons | J |
| When all turns round below above | E |
| And our own heads the most of any | D |
| If this is not stark staring love | E |
| Then you and I are sages Fanny | D |
Thomas Moore
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