Song Ix. - The Fatal Hours Are Wondrous Near Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII EEJJ JJKK JJLL| The fatal hours are wondrous near | A |
| That from these fountains bear my dear | A |
| A little space is given in vain | B |
| She robs my sight and shuns the plain | B |
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| A little space for me to prove | C |
| My boundless flame my endless love | D |
| And like the train of vulgar hours | E |
| Invidious Time that space devours | E |
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| Near yonder beech is Delia's way | F |
| On that I gaze the livelong day | F |
| No eastern monarch's dazzling pride | G |
| Should draw my longing eyes aside | G |
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| The chief that knows of succours nigh | H |
| And sees his mangled legions die | H |
| Casts not a more impatient glance | I |
| To see the loitering aids advance | I |
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| Not more the schoolboy that expires | E |
| Far from his native home requires | E |
| To see some friend's familiar face | J |
| Or meet a parent's last embrace | J |
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| She comes but ah what crowds of beaus | J |
| In radiant bands my fair enclose | J |
| Oh better hadst thou shunn'd the green | K |
| Oh Delia better far unseen | K |
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| Methinks by all my tender fears | J |
| By all my sighs by all my tears | J |
| I might from torture now be free | L |
| 'Tis more than death to part from thee | L |
William Shenstone
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