Langue D'oc Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCCCDEFFFE DG FFFFHIIIHFFFHFFFHJJJ HKJJLFIIIF M DM FFNFM FFNFM FFOFFP FFIIII DDQQDDF DO DDII FR FFSSFF FFTOO TU VWXFFF FV DODODFIFF OFFYVZO FDFFF WQDMODFFDOOA2B2B2FVF DVVC2 TTFIFWD2FE2 TD OOOFO FFFFO FFFFO OOOF DDDF DDDFOAlba | A |
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When the nightingale to his mate | B |
Sings day long and night late | B |
My love and I keep state | B |
In bower | C |
In flower | C |
''Till the watchman on the tower | C |
Cry | D |
'Up Thou rascal Rise | E |
I see the white | F |
Light | F |
And the night | F |
Flies | E |
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I | D |
Compleynt of a gentleman who has been waiting outside for some time | G |
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O plasmatour and true celestial light | F |
Lord powerful engirdled all with might | F |
Give my good fellow aid in fools' despite | F |
Who stirs not forth this night | F |
And day comes on | H |
'Sst my good fellow art awake or sleeping | I |
Sleep thou no more I see the star upleaping | I |
That hath the dawn in keeping | I |
And day comes on | H |
'Hi Harry hear me for I sing aright | F |
Sleep not thou now I hear the bird in flight | F |
That plaineth of the going of the night | F |
And day comes on | H |
Come now Old swenkin Rise up from thy bed | F |
I see the signs upon the welkin spread | F |
If thou come not the cost be on thy head | F |
And day comes on | H |
And here I am since going down of sun | J |
And pray to God that is St Mary's son | J |
To bring thee safe back my companion | J |
And day comes on | H |
'And thou out here beneath the porch of stone | K |
Badest me to see that a good watch was done | J |
And now thou'lt none of me and wilt have none | J |
Of song of mine | L |
Bass voice from inside | F |
'Wait my good fellow For such joy I take | I |
With her venust and noblest to my make | I |
To hold embraced and will not her forsake | I |
For yammer of the cuckold | F |
Though day break ' | - |
Girart Bornello | M |
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II | D |
Avril | M |
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When the springtime is sweet | F |
And the birds repeat | F |
Their new song in the leaves | N |
Tis meet | F |
A man go where he will | M |
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But from where my heart is set | F |
No message I get | F |
My heart all wakes and grieves | N |
Defeat | F |
Or luck I must have my fill | M |
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Our love comes out | F |
Like the branch that turns about | F |
On the top of the hawthorne | O |
With frost and hail at night | F |
Suffers despite | F |
'Till the sun come and the green leaf on the bough | P |
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I remember the young day | F |
When we set strife away | F |
And she gave me such gesning | I |
Her love and her ring | I |
God grant I die not by any man's stroke | I |
'Till I have my hand 'neath her cloak | I |
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I care not for their clamour | D |
Who have come between me and my charmer | D |
For I know how words run loose | Q |
Big talk and little use | Q |
Spoilers of pleasure | D |
We take their measure | D |
Guilhem de Peitieu | F |
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III | D |
Descant on a Theme by Cerclamon | O |
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When the sweet air goes bitter | D |
And the cold birds twitter | D |
Where the leaf falls from the twig | I |
I sough and sing | I |
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that Love goes out | F |
Leaving me no power to hold him | R |
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Of love I have naught | F |
Save trouble and sad thought | F |
And nothing is grievous | S |
as I desirous | S |
Wanting only what | F |
No man can get or has got | F |
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With the noblest that stands in men's sight | F |
If all the world be in despite | F |
I care not a glove | T |
Where my love is there is a glitter of sun | O |
God give me life and let my course run | O |
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'Till I have her I love | T |
To lie with and prove | U |
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I do not live nor cure me | V |
Nor feel my ache great as it is | W |
For love will give | X |
me no respite | F |
Nor do I know when I turn left or right | F |
nor when I go out | F |
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For in her is all my delight | F |
And all that can save me | V |
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I shake and burn and quiver | D |
From love awake and in swevyn | O |
Such fear I have she deliver | D |
me not from pain | O |
Who know not how to ask her | D |
Who can not | F |
Two years three years I seek | I |
And though I fear to speak out | F |
Still she must know it | F |
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If she won't have me now Death is my portion | O |
Would I had died that day | F |
I came into her sway | F |
God How softly this kills | Y |
When her love look steals on me | V |
Killed me she has I know not how it was | Z |
For I would not look on a woman | O |
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Joy I have none if she make me not mad | F |
Or set me quiet or bid me chatter | D |
Good is it to me if she flout | F |
Or turn me inside out and about | F |
My ill doth she turn sweet | F |
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How swift it is | W |
For I am traist and loose | Q |
I am true or a liar | D |
All vile or all gentle | M |
Or shaking between | O |
as she desire | D |
I Cerclamon sorry and glad | F |
The man whom love had | F |
and has ever | D |
Alas who'er it please or pain | O |
She can me retain | O |
I am gone from one joy | A2 |
From one I loved never so much | B2 |
She by one touch | B2 |
Reft me away | F |
So doth bewilder me | V |
I can not say my say | F |
nor my desire | D |
And when she looks on me | V |
It seems to me | V |
I lose all wit and sense | C2 |
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The noblest girls men love | T |
'Gainst her I prize not as a glove | T |
Worn and old | F |
Though the whole world run rack | I |
And go dark with cloud | F |
Light is | W |
Where she stands | D2 |
And a clamour loud | F |
in my ears | E2 |
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IV | T |
Vergier | D |
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In orchard under the hawthorne | O |
She has her lover till morn | O |
Till the traist man cry out to warn | O |
Them God how swift the night | F |
And day comes on | O |
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O Plasmatour that thou end not the night | F |
Nor take my beloved from my sight | F |
Nor I nor tower man look on daylight | F |
'Fore God How swift the night | F |
And day comes on | O |
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'Lovely thou art to hold me close and kisst | F |
Now cry the birds out in the meadow mist | F |
Despite the cuckold do thou as thou list | F |
So swiftly goes the night | F |
And day comes on | O |
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My pretty boy make we our play again | O |
Here in the orchard where the birds complain | O |
'Till the traist watcher his song unrein | O |
Ah God How swift the night | F |
And day comes on ' | - |
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Out of the wind that blows from her | D |
That dancing and gentle is and thereby pleasanter | D |
Have I drunk a draught sweeter than scent of myrrh | D |
Ah God How swift the night | F |
And day comes on ' | - |
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Venust the lady and none lovelier | D |
For her great beauty many men look on her | D |
Out ofmy love will her heart not stir | D |
By God how swift the night | F |
And day comes on | O |
Ezra Pound
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