The Complaint Of Chaucer To His Purse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC ABABBCC ABABBCC BDDAAD| To yow my purse and to noon other wight | A |
| Complayne I for ye be my lady dere | B |
| I am so sory now that ye been lyght | A |
| For certes but ye make me hevy chere | B |
| Me were as leef be layd upon my bere | B |
| For which unto your mercy thus I crye | C |
| Beth hevy ageyn or elles mot I dye | C |
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| Now voucheth sauf this day or yt be nyght | A |
| That I of yow the blisful soun may here | B |
| Or see your colour lyk the sonne bryght | A |
| That of yelownesse hadde never pere | B |
| Ye be my lyf ye be myn hertes stere | B |
| Quene of comfort and of good companye | C |
| Beth hevy ageyn or elles moote I dye | C |
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| Now purse that ben to me my lyves lyght | A |
| And saveour as doun in this world here | B |
| Out of this toune helpe me thurgh your myght | A |
| Syn that ye wole nat ben my tresorere | B |
| For I am shave as nye as any frere | B |
| But yet I pray unto your curtesye | C |
| Beth hevy agen or elles moote I dye | C |
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| Lenvoy de Chaucer | B |
| O conquerour of Brutes Albyon | D |
| Which that by lyne and free eleccion | D |
| Been verray kyng this song to yow I sende | A |
| And ye that mowen alle oure harmes amende | A |
| Have mynde upon my supplicacion | D |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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