The Doves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MIMI NONO OOOO PQPR OOOO| Reasoning at every step he treads | A |
| Man yet mistakes his way | B |
| While meaner things whom instinct leads | C |
| Are rarely known to stray | B |
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| One silent eve I wandered late | D |
| And heard the voice of love | E |
| The turtle thus addressed her mate | D |
| And soothed the listening dove | E |
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| Our mutual bond of faith and truth | F |
| No time shall disengage | G |
| Those blessings of our early youth | F |
| Shall cheer our latest age | G |
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| While innocence without disguise | H |
| And constancy sincere | I |
| Shall fill the circles of those eyes | H |
| And mine can read them there | J |
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| Those ills that wait on all below | K |
| Shall ne'er be felt by me | L |
| Or gently felt or only so | K |
| As being shared with thee | L |
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| When lightnings flash among the trees | M |
| Or kites are hovering near | I |
| I fear lest thee alone they seize | M |
| And know no other fear | I |
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| 'Tis then I feel myself a wife | N |
| And press thy wedded side | O |
| Resolved a union formed for life | N |
| Death never shall divide | O |
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| But oh if fickle and unchaste | O |
| Forgive a transient thought | O |
| Thou couldst become unkind at last | O |
| And scorn thy present lot | O |
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| No need of lightnings from on high | P |
| Or kites with cruel beak | Q |
| Denied the endearments of thine eye | P |
| This widowed heart would break | R |
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| Thus sang the sweet sequestered bird | O |
| Soft as the passing wind | O |
| And I recorded what I heard | O |
| A lesson for mankind | O |
William Cowper
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