April Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDCDCD EDEDDFGFGF HIHJIKHKHK LMNMMOPOPO QRQRRSTSTS USUSSVWVXV YYV| WHEN the fields catch flower | A |
| And the underwood is green | B |
| And from bower unto bower | A |
| The songs of the birds begin | C |
| I sing with sighing between | B |
| When I laugh and sing | D |
| I am heavy at heart for my sin | C |
| I am sad in the spring | D |
| For my love that I shall not win | C |
| For a foolish thing | D |
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| This profit I have of my woe | E |
| That I know as I sing | D |
| I know he will needs have it so | E |
| Who is master and king | D |
| Who is lord of the spirit of spring | D |
| I will serve her and will not spare | F |
| Till her pity awake | G |
| Who is good who is pure who is fair | F |
| Even her for whose sake | G |
| Love hath ta en me and slain unaware | F |
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| O my lord O Love | H |
| I have laid my life at thy feet | I |
| Have thy will thereof | H |
| Do as it please thee with it | J |
| For what shall please thee is sweet | I |
| I am come unto thee | K |
| To do thee service O Love | H |
| Yet cannot I see | K |
| Thou wilt take any pity thereof | H |
| Any mercy on me | K |
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| But the grace I have long time sought | L |
| Comes never in sight | M |
| If in her it abideth not | N |
| Through thy mercy and might | M |
| Whose heart is the world s delight | M |
| Thou hast sworn without fail I shall die | O |
| For my heart is set | P |
| On what hurts me I wot not why | O |
| But cannot forget | P |
| What I love what I sing for and sigh | O |
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| She is worthy of praise | Q |
| For this grief of her giving is worth | R |
| All the joy of my days | Q |
| That lie between death s day and birth | R |
| All the lordship of things upon earth | R |
| Nay what have I said | S |
| I would not be glad if I could | T |
| My dream and my dread | S |
| Are of her and for her sake I would | T |
| That my life were fled | S |
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| Lo sweet if I durst not pray to you | U |
| Then were I dead | S |
| If I sang not a little to say to you | U |
| Could it be said | S |
| O my love how my heart would be fed | S |
| Ah sweet who hast hold of my heart | V |
| For thy love s sake I live | W |
| Do but tell me ere either depart | V |
| What a lover may give | X |
| For a woman so fair as thou art | V |
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| The lovers that disbelieve | Y |
| False rumours shall grieve | Y |
| And evil speaking shall part | V |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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