My Love Is Like The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEBFFB GGEGGG HIGJJG KKGLLG MMGNOG PQGRRGThe winter is past | A |
And the summer's come at last | A |
And the blackbirds sing in every tree | B |
The hearts of these are glad | C |
But my poor heart is sad | C |
Since my true love is absent from me | B |
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The rose upon the briar | D |
By the water running clear | E |
Gives joy to the linnet and the bee | B |
Their little hearts are blest | F |
But mine is not at rest | F |
While my true love is absent from me | B |
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A livery I'll wear | G |
And I'll comb out my hair | G |
And in velvet so green I'll appear | E |
And straight I will repair | G |
To the Curragh of Kildare | G |
For it's there I'll find tidings of my dear | G |
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I'll wear a cap of black | H |
With a frill around my neck | I |
Gold rings on my fingers I'll wear | G |
All this I'll undertake | J |
For my true lover's sake | J |
He resides at the Curragh of Kildare | G |
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I would not think it strange | K |
Thus the world for to range | K |
If I only get tidings of my dear | G |
But here in Cupid's chain | L |
If I'm bound to remain | L |
I would spend my whole life in despair | G |
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My love is like the sun | M |
That in the firmament does run | M |
And always proves constant and true | G |
But he is like the moon | N |
That wanders up and down | O |
And every month is new | G |
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All ye that are in love | P |
And cannot it remove | Q |
I pity the pains you endure | G |
For experience lets me know | R |
That your hearts are full of woe | R |
And a woe that no mortal can cure | G |
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