Messages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDE AFAF GHG AIAI JKJ| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| Earth forsaking maid | B |
| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| When life's spectre's laid | B |
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| 'Tell him that our side the grave | C |
| Maid may not conceive | D |
| Life should be so sad to have | E |
| That's so sad to leave ' | - |
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| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| When I come to him | F |
| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| Eyes growing dim | F |
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| 'Tell him this when you shall part | G |
| From a maiden pined | H |
| That I see him with my heart | G |
| Now my eyes are blind ' | - |
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| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| Speaking while is scant | I |
| What shall I your true love tell | A |
| Death's white postulant | I |
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| 'Tell him love with speech at strife | J |
| For last utterance saith | K |
| I who loved with all my life | J |
| Love with all my death ' | - |
Francis Thompson
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