Written After Leaving Her At New Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDDEEFFGHIJKLMNNO OP QQRSTUVVSSWWX EHSYZZDDA2B2C2C2| A | |
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| How quick the change from joy to woe | B |
| How chequered is our lot below | B |
| Seldom we view the prospect fair | C |
| Dark clouds of sorrow pain and care | C |
| Some pleasing intervals between | D |
| Scowl over more than half the scene | D |
| Last week with Delia gentle maid | E |
| Far hence in happier fields I strayed | E |
| While on her dear enchanting tongue | F |
| Soft sounds of grateful welcome hung | F |
| For absence had withheld it long | G |
| 'Welcome my long lost love she said | H |
| E'er since our adverse fates decreed | I |
| That we must part and I must mourn | J |
| Till once more blessed by thy return | K |
| Love on whose influence I relied | L |
| For all the transports I enjoyed | M |
| Has played the cruel tyrant's part | N |
| And turned tormentor to my heart | N |
| But let me hold thee to my breast | O |
| Dear partner of my joy and rest | O |
| And not a pain and not a fear | P |
| Or anxious doubt shall enter there ' | - |
| Happy thought I the favoured youth | Q |
| Blessed with such undissembled truth | Q |
| Five suns successive rose and set | R |
| And saw no monarch in his state | S |
| Wrapped in the blaze of majesty | T |
| So free from every care as I | U |
| Next day the scene was overcast | V |
| Such day till then I never passed | V |
| For on that day relentless fate | S |
| Delia and I must separate | S |
| Yet ere we looked our last farewell | W |
| From her dear lips this comfort fell | W |
| 'Fear not that time where'er we rove | X |
| Or absence shall abate my love ' | - |
| And can I doubt my charming maid | E |
| As unsincere what you have said | H |
| Banished from thee to what I hate | S |
| Dull neighbours and insipid chat | Y |
| No joy to cheer me none in view | Z |
| But the dear hope of meeting you | Z |
| And that through passion's optic seen | D |
| With ages interposed between | D |
| Blessed with the kind support you give | A2 |
| 'Tis by your promised truth I live | B2 |
| How deep my woes how fierce my flame | C2 |
| You best may tell who feel the same | C2 |
William Cowper
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