A Rondel Of Merciless Beauty - The Original Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC BCB BCCBCC ADCC ECD DCCBCC ADCC DCD DCCD| I | A |
| Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly | B |
| I may the beaute of them not sustene | C |
| So wendeth it thorowout my herte kene | C |
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| And but your words will helen hastely | B |
| My hertis wound while that it is grene | C |
| Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly | B |
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| Upon my trouth I sey yow feithfully | B |
| That ye ben of my liffe and deth the quene | C |
| For with my deth the trouth shal be sene | C |
| Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly | B |
| I may the beaute of them not sustene | C |
| So wendeth it thorowout my herte kene | C |
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| II | A |
| So hath youre beauty fro your herte chased | D |
| Pitee that me n'availeth not to pleyn | C |
| For daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne | C |
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| Giltless my deth thus have ye purchased | E |
| I sey yow soth me nedeth not to fayn | C |
| So hath your beaute fro your herte chased | D |
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| Alas that nature hath in yow compassed | D |
| So grete beaute that no man may atteyn | C |
| To mercy though he sterve for the peyn | C |
| Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly | B |
| I may the beaute of them not sustene | C |
| So wendeth it thorowout my herte kene | C |
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| III | A |
| Syn I fro love escaped am so fat | D |
| I nere thinke to ben in his prison lene | C |
| Syn I am fre I counte hym not a bene | C |
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| He may answere and sey this and that | D |
| I do no fors I speak ryght as I mene | C |
| Syn I fro love escaped am so fat | D |
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| Love hath my name i strike out of his sclat | D |
| And he is strike out of my bokes clene | C |
| For ever mo 'ther' is non other mene | C |
| Syn I fro love escaped am so fat | D |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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