To Delia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAAFFGGHHII JJKKLMNOPPQQRRDDNNPP STUDVVWWW| Me to whatever state the gods assign | A |
| Believe my love whatever state be mine | A |
| Ne'er shall my breast one anxious sorrow know | B |
| Ne'er shall my heart confess a real woe | B |
| If to thy share heaven's choicest blessings fall | C |
| As thou hast virtue to deserve them all | C |
| Yet vain alas that idle hope would be | D |
| That builds on happiness remote from thee | D |
| Oh may thy charms whate'er our fate decrees | E |
| Please as they must but let them only please | E |
| Not like the sun with equal influence shine | A |
| Nor warm with transport any heart but mine | A |
| Ye who from wealth the ill grounded title boast | F |
| To claim whatever beauty charms you most | F |
| Ye sons of fortune who consult alone | G |
| Her parents' will regardless of her own | G |
| Know that a love like ours a generous flame | H |
| No wealth can purchase and no power reclaim | H |
| The soul's affection can be only given | I |
| Free unextorted as the grace of heaven | I |
| Is there whose faithful bosom can endure | J |
| Pangs fierce as mine nor ever hope a cure | J |
| Who sighs in absence of the dear loved maid | K |
| Nor summons once indifference to his aid | K |
| Who can like me the nice resentment prove | L |
| The thousand soft disquietudes of love | M |
| The trivial strifes that cause a real pain | N |
| The real bliss when reconciled again | O |
| Let him alone dispute the real prize | P |
| And read his sentence in my Delia's eyes | P |
| There shall he read all gentleness and truth | Q |
| But not himself the dear distinguished youth | Q |
| Pity for him perhaps they may express | R |
| Pity that will but heighten his distress | R |
| But wretched rival he must sigh to see | D |
| The sprightlier rays of love directed all to me | D |
| And thou dear antidote of every pain | N |
| Which fortune can inflict or love ordain | N |
| Since early love has taught thee to despise | P |
| What the world's worthless votaries only prize | P |
| Believe my love no less the generous god | S |
| Rules in my breast his ever blest abode | T |
| There has he driven each gross desire away | U |
| Directing every wish and every thought to thee | D |
| Then can I ever leave my Delia's arms | V |
| A slave devoted to inferior charms | V |
| Can e'er my soul her reason so disgrace | W |
| For what blest minister of heavenly race | W |
| Would quit that heaven to find a happier place | W |
William Cowper
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