My Heart Is High Above Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCCDDDDDDDDEE FFDDDDGGMY heart is high above my body is full of bliss | A |
For I am set in luve as well as I would wiss | A |
I luve my lady pure and she luvis me again | B |
I am her serviture she is my soverane | B |
She is my very heart I am her howp and heill | C |
She is my joy invart I am her luvar leal | C |
I am her bond and thrall she is at my command | D |
I am perpetual her man both foot and hand | D |
The thing that may her please my body sall fulfil | C |
Quhatever her disease it does my body ill | C |
My bird my bonny ane my tender babe venust | D |
My luve my life alane my liking and my lust | D |
We interchange our hairtis in others armis soft | D |
Spriteless we twa depairtis usand our luvis oft | D |
We mourn when licht day dawis we plain the nicht is short | D |
We curse the cock that crawis that hinderis our disport | D |
I glowffin up aghast quhen I her miss on nicht | D |
And in my oxter fast I find the bowster richt | D |
Then languor on me lies like Morpheus the mair | E |
Quhilk causes me uprise and to my sweet repair | E |
And then is all the sorrow forth of remembrance | F |
That ever I had a forrow in luvis observance | F |
Thus never I do rest so lusty a life I lead | D |
Quhen that I list to test the well of womanheid | D |
Luvaris in pain I pray God send you sic remeid | D |
As I have nicht and day you to defend from deid | D |
Therefore be ever true unto your ladies free | G |
And they will on you rue as mine has done on me | G |
Anonymous Olde English
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