Virelay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAAAC CCCDCCCE EEEFGEDH HHHIHHHI IIICIIIC| Alone walking | A |
| In thought plaining | A |
| And sore sighing | A |
| All desolate | B |
| Me rememb'ring | A |
| Of my living | A |
| My death wishing | A |
| Both early and late | C |
| - | |
| Infortunate | C |
| Is so my fate | C |
| That wot ye what | C |
| Out of measure | D |
| My life I hate | C |
| Thus desperate | C |
| In such poor estate | C |
| Do I endure | E |
| - | |
| Of other cure | E |
| Am I not sure | E |
| Thus to endure | E |
| Is hard certain | F |
| Such is my ure | G |
| I you ensure | E |
| What creature | D |
| May have more pain | H |
| - | |
| My truth so plain | H |
| Is taken in vain | H |
| And great disdain | H |
| In remembrance | I |
| Yet I full fain | H |
| Would me complain | H |
| Me to abstain | H |
| From this penance | I |
| - | |
| But in substance | I |
| None alleggeance | I |
| Of my grievance | I |
| Can I not find | C |
| Right so my chance | I |
| With displeasance | I |
| Doth me advance | I |
| And thus an end | C |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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