A Praise Of His Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HHHHII HHHHBB JHJHBB| Give place ye lovers here before | A |
| That spent your boasts and brags in vain | B |
| My lady's beauty passeth more | A |
| The best of yours I dare well sayn | B |
| Than doth the sun the candle light | C |
| Or brightest day the darkest night | C |
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| And thereto hath a troth as just | D |
| As had Penelope the fair | E |
| For what she saith ye may it trust | D |
| As it by writing sealed were | F |
| And virtues hath she many mo | G |
| Than I with pen have skill to show | G |
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| I could rehearse if that I wold | H |
| The whole effect of Nature's plaint | H |
| When she had lost the perfit mould | H |
| The like to whom she could not paint | H |
| With wringing hands how she did cry | I |
| And what she said I know it I | I |
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| I know she swore with raging mind | H |
| Her kingdom only set apart | H |
| There was no loss by law of kind | H |
| That could have gone so near her heart | H |
| And this was chiefly all her pain | B |
| She could not make the like again | B |
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| Sith Nature thus gave her the praise | J |
| To be the chiefest work she wrought | H |
| In faith methink some better ways | J |
| On your behalf might well be sought | H |
| Than to compare as ye have done | B |
| To match the candle with the sun | B |
Henry Howard
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