To Delia: On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGI JKLG MBNB| Ah wherefore should my weeping maid suppress | A |
| Those gentle signs of undissembled woe | B |
| When from soft love proceeds the deep distress | A |
| Ah why forbid the willing tears to flow | B |
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| Since for my sake each dear translucent drop | C |
| Breaks forth best witness of thy truth sincere | D |
| My lips should drink the precious mixture up | E |
| And ere it falls receive the trembling tear | F |
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| Trust me these symptoms of thy faithful heart | G |
| In absence shall my dearest hope sustain | H |
| Delia since such thy sorrow that we part | G |
| Such when we meet thy joy shall be again | I |
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| Hard is that heart and unsubdued by love | J |
| That feels no pain nor ever heaves a sigh | K |
| Such hearts the fiercest passions only prove | L |
| Or freeze in cold insensibility | G |
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| Oh then indulge thy grief nor fear to tell | M |
| The gentle source from whence thy sorrows flow | B |
| Nor think it weakness when we love to feel | N |
| Nor think it weakness what we feel to show | B |
William Cowper
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