Why Does She So Long Delay? By Paul, The Silentiary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAA CDAAEE FGHHFF| Why does she so long delay | A |
| Night is waning fast away | A |
| Thrice have I my lamp renewed | B |
| Watching here in solitude | B |
| Where can she so long delay | A |
| Where so long delay | A |
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| Vainly now have two lamps shone | C |
| See the third is nearly gone | D |
| Oh that Love would like the ray | A |
| Of that weary lamp decay | A |
| But no alas it burns still on | E |
| Still still burns on | E |
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| Gods how oft the traitress dear | F |
| Swore by Venus she'd be here | G |
| But to one so false as she | H |
| What is man or deity | H |
| Neither doth this proud one fear | F |
| No neither doth she fear | F |
Thomas Moore
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