Margaret Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866



Long night succeeds thy little day;
Oh blighted blossom! can it be,
That this grey stone, and grassy clay,
Have clos'd our anxious care of thee?

The half-form'd speech of artless thought
That spoke a mind beyond thy years;
The song, the dance, by nature taught;
The sunny smiles, the transient tears;

The symmetry of face and form,
The eye with light and life replete;
The little heart so fondly warm,
The voice so musically sweet;

These, lost to hope, in memory yet
Around the hearts that lov'd thee cling,
Shadowing, with long and vain regret,
The too fair promise of thy spring.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 574
Words 105
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. more…

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