A Curate's Complaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHGHIJKJ LMLMCNON LPQLOMLM RSTSRNRN| Where are they all departed | A |
| The loved ones of my youth | B |
| Those emblems white of purity | C |
| Sweet innocence and truth | B |
| When day light drives the darkness | D |
| When evening melts to night | E |
| When noon day suns burn brightest | F |
| They come not to my sight | E |
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| I miss their pure embraces | G |
| Around my neck and throat | H |
| The thousand winning graces | G |
| Whereon I used to dote | H |
| I know I may find markets | I |
| Where love is bought and sold | J |
| But no such love can equal | K |
| The tender ties of old | J |
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| My gentle washer woman | L |
| I know that you are true | M |
| The least shade of suspicion | L |
| Can never fall on you | M |
| Then fear me not as fiercely | C |
| I fix on thee stern eyes | N |
| And ask in terms emphatic | O |
| Where are my lost white ties | N |
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| Each year I buy a dozen | L |
| Yet scarce a year is gone | P |
| Ere looking in my ward robe | Q |
| I find that I have none | L |
| I don't believe in magic | O |
| I know that you are true | M |
| Yet say my washer woman | L |
| What can those white ties do | M |
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| Does each with her own collar | R |
| To regions far elope | S |
| Regions by starch untainted | T |
| And innocent of soap | S |
| I know not but in future | R |
| I'll buy no more white ties | N |
| But wear the stiff 'all rounder' | R |
| Of Ritualistic guise | N |
Edward Woodley Bowling
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