On Delia (bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFFGG HHDDGG| Bid adieu my sad heart bid adieu to thy peace | A |
| Thy pleasure is past and thy sorrows increase | A |
| See the shadows of evening how far they extend | B |
| And a long night is coming that never may end | B |
| For the sun is now set that enlivened the scene | C |
| And an age must be past ere it rises again | D |
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| Already deprived of its splendour and heat | E |
| I feel thee more slowly more heavily beat | E |
| Perhaps overstrained with the quick pulse of pleasure | F |
| Thou art glad of this respite to beat at thy leisure | F |
| But the sigh of distress shall now weary thee more | G |
| Than the flutter and tumult of passion before | G |
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| The heart of a lover is never at rest | H |
| With joy overwhelmed or with sorrow oppressed | H |
| When Delia is near all is ecstasy then | D |
| And I even forget I must lose her again | D |
| When absent as wretched as happy before | G |
| Despairing I cry I shall see her no more | G |
William Cowper
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