Complaint Of A Lover That Defied Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHIJJKKLLLL MMLLJJLLBNOPGIDIQQRS LLTUDDVV| WHEN Summer took in hand the winter to assail | A |
| With force of might and virtue great his stormy blasts to quail | A |
| And when he clothed fair the earth about with green | B |
| And every tree new garmented that pleasure was to seen | B |
| Mine heart gan new revive and changed blood did stir | C |
| Me to withdraw my winter woes that kept within the dore | D |
| 'Abroad ' quoth my desire 'assay to set thy foot | E |
| Where thou shalt find the savour sweet for sprung is every root | F |
| And to thy health if thou were sick in any case | G |
| Nothing more good than in the spring the air to feel a space | G |
| There shalt thou hear and see all kinds of birds y wrought | H |
| Well tune their voice with warble small as nature hath them taught ' | I |
| Thus pricked me my lust the sluggish house to leave | J |
| And for my health I thought it best such counsel to receive | J |
| So on a morrow forth unwist of any wight | K |
| I went to prove how well it would my heavy burden light | K |
| And when I felt the air so pleasant round about | L |
| Lord to myself how glad I was that I had gotten out | L |
| There might I see how Ver had every blossom hent | L |
| And eke the new betrothed birds y coupled how they went | L |
| And in their songs methought they thanked Nature much | M |
| That by her license all that year to love their hap was such | M |
| Right as they could devise to choose them feres throughout | L |
| With much rejoicing to their Lord thus flew they all about | L |
| Which when I gan resolve and in my head conceive | J |
| What pleasant life what heaps of joy these little birds receive | J |
| And saw in what estate I weary man was wrought | L |
| By want of that they had at will and I reject at nought | L |
| Lord how I gan in wrath unwisely me demean | B |
| I cursed Love and him defied I thought to turn the stream | N |
| But when I well beheld he had me under awe | O |
| I asked mercy for my fault that so transgrest his law | P |
| ' Thou blinded God ' quoth I ' forgive me this offence | G |
| Unwittingly I went about to malice thy pretence ' | I |
| Wherewith he gave a beck and thus methought he swore | D |
| ' Thy sorrow ought suffice to purge thy fault if it were more ' | I |
| The virtue of which sound mine heart did so revive | Q |
| That I methought was made as whole as any man alive | Q |
| But here I may perceive mine error all and some | R |
| For that I thought that so it was yet was it still undone | S |
| And all that was no more but mine expressed mind | L |
| That fain would have some good relief of Cupid well assign'd | L |
| I turned home forthwith and might perceive it well | T |
| That he aggrieved was right sore with me for my rebel | U |
| My harms have ever since increased more and more | D |
| And I remain without his help undone for ever more | D |
| A mirror let me be unto ye lovers all | V |
| Strive not with love for if ye do it will ye thus befall | V |
Henry Howard
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