Apology To Delia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDD DDDEED FFDGGD HHDIID| This evening Delia you and I | A |
| Have managed most delightfully | B |
| For with a frown we parted | C |
| Having contrived some trifle that | D |
| We both may be much troubled at | D |
| And sadly disconcerted | D |
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| Yet well as each performed their part | D |
| We might perceive it was but art | D |
| And that we both intended | D |
| To sacrifice a little ease | E |
| For all such petty flaws as these | E |
| Are made but to be mended | D |
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| You knew dissembler all the while | F |
| How sweet it was to reconcile | F |
| After this heavy pelt | D |
| That we should gain by this allay | G |
| When next we met and laugh away | G |
| The care we never felt | D |
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| Happy when we but seek to endure | H |
| A little pain then find a cure | H |
| By double joy requited | D |
| For friendship like a severed bone | I |
| Improves and joins a stronger tone | I |
| When amply reunited | D |
William Cowper
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