Arbor Amoris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDCD EBABFCCDCD ABABBGCDCD A CCDCD| I have a tree a graft of Love | A |
| That in my heart has taken root | B |
| Sad are the buds and blooms thereof | A |
| And bitter sorrow is its fruit | B |
| Yet since it was a tender shoot | B |
| So greatly hath its shadow spread | C |
| That underneath all joy is dead | C |
| And all my pleasant days are flown | D |
| Nor can I slay it nor instead | C |
| Plant any tree save this alone | D |
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| Ah yet for long and long enough | E |
| My tears were rain about its root | B |
| And though the fruit be harsh thereof | A |
| I scarcely looked for better fruit | B |
| Than this that carefully I put | F |
| In garner for the bitter bread | C |
| Whereon my weary life is fed | C |
| Ah better were the soil unsown | D |
| That bears such growths but Love instead | C |
| Will plant no tree but this alone | D |
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| Ah would that this new spring whereof | A |
| The leaves and flowers flush into shoot | B |
| I might have succour and aid of Love | A |
| To prune these branches at the root | B |
| That long have borne such bitter fruit | B |
| And graft a new bough comforted | G |
| With happy blossoms white and red | C |
| So pleasure should for pain atone | D |
| Nor Love slay this tree nor instead | C |
| Plant any tree but this alone | D |
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| L'ENVOY | A |
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| Princess by whom my hope is fed | C |
| My heart thee prays in lowlihead | C |
| To prune the ill boughs overgrown | D |
| Nor slay Love's tree nor plant instead | C |
| Another tree save this alone | D |
Franaois Villon
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