As Ye Came From The Holy Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDAE FGHG IJKJ LLML LNLN OPQP RSTS UVGV CWXW IYZYAs ye came from the holy land | A |
Of Walsinghame | B |
Met you not with my true love | C |
By the way as you came | B |
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How should I know your true love | C |
That have met many a one | D |
As I came from the holy land | A |
That have come that have gone | E |
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She is neither white nor brown | F |
But as the heavens fair | G |
There is none hath her form divine | H |
In the earth or the air | G |
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Such a one did I meet good sir | I |
Such an angelic face | J |
Who like a nymph like a queen did appear | K |
In her gait in her grace | J |
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She hath left me here alone | L |
All alone as unknown | L |
Who sometime did me lead with herself | M |
And me loved as her own | L |
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What's the cause that she leaves you alone | L |
And a new way doth take | N |
That sometime did love you as her own | L |
And her joy did you make | N |
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I have loved her all my youth | O |
But now am old as you see | P |
Love likes not the falling fruit | Q |
Nor the withered tree | P |
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Know that Love is a careless child | R |
And forgets promise past | S |
He is blind he is deaf when he list | T |
And in faith never fast | S |
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His desire is a dureless content | U |
And a trustless joy | V |
He is won with a world of despair | G |
And is lost with a toy | V |
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Of womenkind such indeed is the love | C |
Or the word love abused | W |
Under which many childish desires | X |
And conceits are excused | W |
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But true love is a durable fire | I |
In the mind ever burning | Y |
Never sick never dead never cold | Z |
From itself never turning | Y |
Anonymous Olde English
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