The Sad Shepherd's Passion Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFGHIIJKLLM| O Gentle Love ungentle for thy deed | A |
| Thou makest my heart | B |
| A bloody mark | C |
| With piercing shot to bleed | A |
| Shoot soft sweet Love for fear thou shoot amiss | D |
| For fear too keen | E |
| Thy arrows been | F |
| And hist the heart where my beloved is | G |
| Too fair that fortune were nor never I | H |
| Shall be so blest | I |
| Among the rest | I |
| That Love shall seize on her by sympathy | J |
| Then since with Love my prayers bear no boot | K |
| This doth remain | L |
| To cease my pain | L |
| I take the wound and die at Venus' foot | M |
George Peele
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