From -myrtisâ? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHBBIJEEKLME| FRIENDS whom she look d at blandly from her couch | A |
| And her white wrist above it gem bedew d | B |
| Were arguing with Pentheusa she had heard | C |
| Report of Creon s death whom years before | D |
| She listen d to well pleas d and sighs arose | E |
| For sighs full often fondle with reproofs | E |
| And will be fondled by them When I came | F |
| After the rest to visit her she said | G |
| Myrtis how kind Who better knows than thou | H |
| The pangs of love and my first love was he | B |
| Tell me if ever Eros are reveal d | B |
| Thy secrets to the earth have they been true | I |
| To any love who speak about the first | J |
| What shall these holier lights like twinkling stars | E |
| In the few hours assign d them change their place | E |
| And when comes ampler splendor disappear | K |
| Idler I am and pardon not reply | L |
| Implore from thee thus question d well I know | M |
| Thou strikest like Olympian Jove but once | E |
Walter Savage Landor
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