Regret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EEEE FGFFH EIEEI JKJJK CLCCL| Yes Happiness hath left me soon behind | A |
| Alas we all pursue its steps and when | B |
| We've sunk to rest within its arms entwined | A |
| Like the Phoenician virgin wake and find | A |
| Ourselves alone again | B |
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| Then through the distant future's boundless space | C |
| We seek the lost companion of our days | D |
| 'Return return ' we cry and lo apace | C |
| Pleasure appears but not to fill the place | C |
| Of that we mourn always | D |
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| I should unhallowed Pleasure woo me now | E |
| Will to the wanton sorc'ress say 'Begone | E |
| Respect the cypress on my mournful brow | E |
| Lost Happiness hath left regret but thou | E |
| Leavest remorse alone ' | - |
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| Yet haply lest I check the mounting fire | F |
| O friends that in your revelry appears | G |
| With you I'll breathe the air which ye respire | F |
| And smiling hide my melancholy lyre | F |
| When it is wet with tears | H |
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| Each in his secret heart perchance doth own | E |
| Some fond regret 'neath passing smiles concealed | I |
| Sufferers alike together and alone | E |
| Are we with many a grief to others known | E |
| How many unrevealed | I |
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| Alas for natural tears and simple pains | J |
| For tender recollections cherished long | K |
| For guileless griefs which no compunction stains | J |
| We blush as if we wore these earthly chains | J |
| Only for sport and song | K |
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| Yes my blest hours have fled without a trace | C |
| In vain I strove their parting to delay | L |
| Brightly they beamed then left a cheerless space | C |
| Like an o'erclouded smile that in the face | C |
| Lightens and fades away | L |
Victor Marie Hugo
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