To My Empty Purse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBC ABABBDC ABABBEC B| To you my purse and to none other wight | A |
| Complain I for ye be my lady dere | B |
| I am sorry now that ye be light | A |
| For certes ye now make me heavy chere | B |
| Me were as lefe be laid upon a bere | B |
| For which unto your mercy thus I crie | B |
| Be heavy againe or els mote I die | C |
| - | |
| Now vouchsafe this day or it be night | A |
| That I of you the blissful sowne may here | B |
| Or see your color like the sunne bright | A |
| That of yellowness had never pere | B |
| Ye are my life ye be my hertes stere | B |
| Queen of comfort and of good companie | D |
| Be heavy againe or els mote I die | C |
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| Now purse thou art to me my lives light | A |
| And saviour as downe in this world here | B |
| Out of this towne helpe me by your might | A |
| Sith that you will not be my treasure | B |
| For I am slave as nere as any frere | B |
| But I pray unto your curtesie | E |
| Be heavy againe or els mote I die | C |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer | B |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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