Virelay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAAAC CCCDCCCE EEEFGEDH HHHIHHHI IIICIIICAlone 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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