The Lady's Yes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKE LMNN HOHO| 'Yes ' I answered you last night | A |
| 'No ' this morning Sir I say | B |
| Colours seen by candlelight | A |
| Will not look the same by day | B |
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| When the viols played their best | C |
| Lamps above and laughs below | D |
| Love me sounded like a jest | C |
| Fit for Yes or fit for No | D |
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| Call me false or call me free | E |
| Vow whatever light may shine | F |
| No man on your face shall see | E |
| Any grief for change on mine | F |
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| Yet the sin is on us both | G |
| Time to dance is not to woo | H |
| Wooer light makes fickle troth | G |
| Scorn of me recoils on you | H |
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| Learn to win a lady's faith | I |
| Nobly as the thing is high | J |
| Bravely as for life and death | K |
| With a loyal gravity | E |
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| Lead her from the festive boards | L |
| Point her to the starry skies | M |
| Guard her by your truthful words | N |
| Pure from courtship's flatteries | N |
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| By your truth she shall be true | H |
| Ever true as wives of yore | O |
| And her Yes once said to you | H |
| SHALL be Yes for evermore | O |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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