Ballade Of Amoureuse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBD ABABBEBD ABABBDBD| Not Jason nor Medea wise | A |
| I crave to see nor win much lore | B |
| Nor list to Orpheus' minstrelsies | A |
| Nor Her'cles would I see that o'er | C |
| The wide world roamed from shore to shore | B |
| Nor by St James Penelope | D |
| Nor pure Lucrece such wrong that bore | B |
| To see my Love suffices me | D |
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| Virgil and Cato no man vies | A |
| With them in wealth of clerkly store | B |
| I would not see them with mine eyes | A |
| Nor him that sailed sans sail nor oar | B |
| Across the barren sea and hoar | B |
| And all for love of his ladye | E |
| Nor pearl nor sapphire takes me more | B |
| To see my Love suffices me | D |
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| I heed not Pegasus that flies | A |
| As swift as shafts the bowmen pour | B |
| Nor famed Pygmalion's artifice | A |
| Whereof the like was ne'er before | B |
| Nor Oleus that drank of yore | B |
| The salt wave of the whole great sea | D |
| Why dost thou ask 'Tis as I swore | B |
| To see my Love suffices me | D |
Andrew Lang
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