Alison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCCDEEED DFAFFFFDG FDFDDDDDG FHFHHHHDG| Bytuene Mershe ant Averil | A |
| When spray biginneth to spring | B |
| The lutel foul hath hire wyl | A |
| On hyre lud to synge | C |
| Ich libbe in love longinge | C |
| For semlokest of alle thynge | C |
| He may me blisse bringe | C |
| Icham in hire bandoun | D |
| An hendy hap ichabbe y hent | E |
| Ichot from hevene it is me sent | E |
| From alle wymmen my love is lent | E |
| Ant lyht on Alisoun | D |
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| On heu hire her is fayr ynoh | D |
| Hire browe broune hire eye blake | F |
| With lossum chere he on me loh | A |
| With middel smal ant wel y make | F |
| Bote he me wolle to hire take | F |
| For to buen hire owen make | F |
| Long to lyven ichulle forsake | F |
| Ant feye fallen adoun | D |
| An hendy hap etc | G |
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| Nihtes when I wende and wake | F |
| For thi myn wonges waxeth won | D |
| Levedi al for thine sake | F |
| Longinge is y lent me on | D |
| In world his non so wyter mon | D |
| That al hire bount egrave telle con | D |
| Hire swyre is whittore than the swon | D |
| Ant feyrest may in toune | D |
| An hendy hap etc | G |
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| Icham for wowyng al for wake | F |
| Wery so water in wore | H |
| Lest eny reve me my make | F |
| Ichabbe y yerned yore | H |
| Betere is tholien whyle sore | H |
| Then mournen evermore | H |
| Geynest under gore | H |
| Herkne to my roun | D |
| An hendy hap etc | G |
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Frederick Hill: I remember this poem my childhood. It was an anthology of English and American poetry in chronological order edited by Louis Untermeyer. Alisoun (sic) was one of the earliest. My mother especially liked it. She gave its name to my sister.
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