Epitaph On Lord Byron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJ| Lo Byron's tomb | A |
| Here deeply pensive scan | B |
| The greatness and the littleness of man | B |
| In timeless death here Freedom's Martyr sleeps | C |
| Whom her lost Champion Greece desponding weeps | C |
| The impassion'd Bard whose Genius wing'd with flame | D |
| Swept like a comet through the sphere of fame | D |
| Dazzling the astonish'd world lies buried here | E |
| Thus human Glory ends its bright career | F |
| To Byron what high gifts did heaven impart | G |
| An intellect sublime a feeling heart | G |
| But ah his wild desires his passions strong | H |
| Hurried him irresistibly along | H |
| Wherever Pleasure call'd through good or ill | I |
| No law could bridle his own proud self will | I |
| O had but Virtue ruled his mighty mind | J |
| Byron had been the first of human kind | J |
Thomas Oldham
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