When I Behold The Lark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABAB CDCECDCE FBFBFBFB| When I behold the lark upspring | A |
| To meet the bright sun joyfully | B |
| How he forgets to poise his wing | A |
| In his gay spirit's revelry | B |
| Alas that mournful thoughts should spring | A |
| E'en from that happy songster's glee | B |
| Strange that such gladdening sight should bring | A |
| Not joy but pining care to me | B |
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| I thought my heart had known the whole | C |
| Of love but small its knowledge proved | D |
| For still the more my longing soul | C |
| Loves on itself the while unloved | E |
| She stole my heart myself she stole | C |
| And all I prized from me removed | D |
| She left me but the fierce control | C |
| Of vain desires for her I loved | E |
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| All self command is now gone by | F |
| E'er since the luckless hour when she | B |
| Became a mirror to my eye | F |
| Whereon I gazed complacently | B |
| Thou fatal mirror there I spy | F |
| Love's image and my doom shall be | B |
| Like young Narcissus thus to sigh | F |
| And thus expire beholding thee | B |
Bernard De Ventadorn
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