The Complaint Of A Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KKKK LBLB KMKM NBOB EPEP KHKH QRQR| Seest thou younder craggy Rock | A |
| Whose Head o'er looks the swelling Main | B |
| Where never Shepherd fed his Flock | A |
| Or careful Peasant sow'd his Grain | B |
| No wholesome Herb grows on the same | C |
| Or Bird of Day will on it rest | D |
| 'Tis Barren as the Hopeless Flame | C |
| That scortches my tormented Breast | D |
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| Deep underneath a Cave does lie | E |
| Th' entrance hid with dismal Yew | F |
| Where Phebus never shew'd his Eye | E |
| Or cheerful Day yet pierced through | F |
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| In that dark Melancholy Cell | G |
| Retreate and Sollace to my Woe | H |
| Love sad Dispair and I do dwell | G |
| The Springs from whence my Griefs do flow | H |
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| Treacherous Love that did appear | I |
| When he at first approach't my Heart | J |
| Drest in a Garb far from severe | I |
| Or threatning ought of future smart | J |
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| So Innocent those Charms then seem'd | K |
| When Rosalinda first I spy'd | K |
| Ah Who would them have deadly deem'd | K |
| But Flowers do often Serpents hide | K |
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| Beneath those sweets conceal'd lay | L |
| To Love the cruel Foe Disdain | B |
| With which alas she does repay | L |
| My Constant and Deserving Pain | B |
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| When I in Tears have spent the Night | K |
| With Sighs I usher in the Sun | M |
| Who never saw a sadder sight | K |
| In all the Courses he has run | M |
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| Sleep which to others Ease does prove | N |
| Comes unto me alas in vain | B |
| For in my Dreams I am in Love | O |
| And in them too she does Disdain | B |
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| Some times t'Amuse my Sorrow I | E |
| Unto the hollow Rocks repair | P |
| And loudly to the Eccho cry | E |
| Ah gentle Nimph come ease my Care | P |
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| Thou who times past a Lover wer't | K |
| Ah pity me who now am so | H |
| And by a sense of thine own smart | K |
| Alleviate my Mighty Woe | H |
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| Come Flatter then or Chide my Grief | Q |
| Catch my last Words and call me Fool | R |
| Or say she Loves for my Relief | Q |
| My Passion either sooth or School | R |
Anne Killigrew
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