Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IJIK BLBL MNON BPBP| Delia the unkindest girl on earth | A |
| When I besought the fair | B |
| That favour of intrinsic worth | A |
| A ringlet of her hair | B |
| - | |
| Refused that instant to comply | C |
| With my absurd request | D |
| For reasons she could specify | C |
| Some twenty score at least | E |
| - | |
| Trust me my dear however odd | F |
| It may appear to say | G |
| I sought it merely to defraud | H |
| Thy spoiler of his prey | G |
| - | |
| Yes when its sister locks shall fade | I |
| As quickly fade they must | J |
| When all their beauties are decayed | I |
| Their gloss their colour lost | K |
| - | |
| Ah then if haply to my share | B |
| Some slender pittance fall | L |
| If I but gain one single hair | B |
| Nor age usurp them all | L |
| - | |
| When you behold it still as sleek | M |
| As lovely to the view | N |
| As when it left thy snowy neck | O |
| That Eden where it grew | N |
| - | |
| Then shall my Delia's self declare | B |
| That I professed the truth | P |
| And have preserved my little share | B |
| In everlasting youth | P |
William Cowper
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