The Married Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFDGDGHIJI KLKLDMDMNONO| Why having won her do I woo | A |
| Because her spirit's vestal grace | B |
| Provokes me always to pursue | A |
| But spirit like eludes embrace | B |
| Because her womanhood is such | C |
| That as on court days subjects kiss | D |
| The Queen's hand yet so near a touch | C |
| Affirms no mean familiarness | D |
| Nay rather marks more fair the height | E |
| Which can with safety so neglect | F |
| To dread as lower ladies might | E |
| That grace could meet with disrespect | F |
| Thus she with happy favour feeds | D |
| Allegiance from a love so high | G |
| That thence no false conceit proceeds | D |
| Of difference bridged or state put by | G |
| Because although in act and word | H |
| As lowly as a wife can be | I |
| Her manners when they call me lord | J |
| Remind me 'tis by courtesy | I |
| Not with her least consent of will | K |
| Which would my proud affection hurt | L |
| But by the noble style that still | K |
| Imputes an unattain'd desert | L |
| Because her gay and lofty brows | D |
| When all is won which hope can ask | M |
| Reflect a light of hopeless snows | D |
| That bright in virgin ether bask | M |
| Because though free of the outer court | N |
| I am this Temple keeps its shrine | O |
| Sacred to Heaven because in short | N |
| She's not and never can be mine | O |
Coventry Patmore
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