From Love To Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGGGHHII JJAAKKLLMMNNOOPPQQ| If you would have me love once more | A |
| The blissful age of love restore | A |
| From wine's free joys and lovers' cares | B |
| Relentless time who no man spares | B |
| Urges me quickly to retire | C |
| And no more to such bliss aspire | C |
| From such austerity exact | D |
| Let's if we can some good extract | D |
| Whose way of thinking with this age | E |
| Suits not can ne'er be deemed a sage | E |
| Let sprightly youth its follies gay | F |
| Its follies amiable display | F |
| Life to two moments is confined | G |
| Let one to wisdom be consigned | G |
| You sweet delusions of my mind | G |
| Still to my ruling passion kind | G |
| Which always brought a sure relief | H |
| To life's accurst companion grief | H |
| Will you forever from me fly | I |
| And must I joyless friendless die | I |
| No mortal e'er resigns his breath | J |
| I see without a double death | J |
| Who loves and is beloved no more | A |
| His hapless fate may well deplore | A |
| Life's loss may easily be borne | K |
| Of love bereft man is forlorn | K |
| 'Twas thus those pleasures I lamented | L |
| Which I so oft in youth repented | L |
| My soul replete with soft desire | M |
| Vainly regretted youthful fire | M |
| But friendship then celestial maid | N |
| From heaven descended to my aid | N |
| Less lively than the amorous flame | O |
| Although her tenderness the same | O |
| The charms of friendship I admired | P |
| My soul was with new beauty fired | P |
| I then made one in friendship's train | Q |
| But destitute of love complain | Q |
Voltaire
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