On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGHHIIJJIIFF KKLLBBMMNNJJOOPP| Oh Mary when distress and anguish came | A |
| And slow disease preyed on thy wasted frame | A |
| When every friend ev'n like thy bloom was fled | B |
| And Want bowed low thy unsupported head | B |
| Sure sad Humanity a tear might give | C |
| And Virtue say Live beauteous sufferer live | D |
| But should there one be found amidst the few | E |
| Who with compassion thy last pangs might view | E |
| One who beheld thy errors with a tear | F |
| To whom the ruins of thy heart were dear | G |
| Who fondly hoped the ruthful season past | H |
| Thy faded virtues might revive at last | H |
| Should such be found oh when he saw thee lie | I |
| Closing on every earthly hope thine eye | I |
| When he beheld despair with rueful trace | J |
| Mark the strange features of thy altered face | J |
| When he beheld as painful death drew nigh | I |
| Thy pale pale cheek thy feebly lifted eye | I |
| Thy chill shrunk hand hung down as in despair | F |
| Or slowly raised with many a muttered prayer | F |
| When thus in early youth he saw thee bend | K |
| Poor to the grave and die without a friend | K |
| Some sadder feelings might unbidden start | L |
| And more than common pity touch his heart | L |
| The eventful scene is closed with pausing dread | B |
| And sorrow I drew nigh the silent bed | B |
| Thy look was calm thy heart was cold and still | M |
| As if the world had never used it ill | M |
| Methought the last faint smile with traces weak | N |
| Still seemed to linger on thy faded cheek | N |
| Poor Mary though most beauteous in thy face | J |
| Ere sorrow touched it beamed each lovely grace | J |
| Yet oh thy living features never wore | O |
| A look so sweet so eloquent before | O |
| As this which bids all human passions cease | P |
| And tells my pitying heart you died in peace | P |
William Lisle Bowles
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