Complaint Of The Absence Of Her Lover Being Upon The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC CDCDEEE CFCGHHI CBCBCCC JKFKLLL MNONLLL| O happy dames that may embrace | A |
| The fruit of your delight | B |
| Help to bewail the woful case | A |
| And eke the heavy plight | B |
| Of me that wonted to rejoice | C |
| The fortune of my pleasant choice | C |
| Good ladies help to fill my mourning voice | C |
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| In ship freight with rememberance | C |
| Of thoughts and pleasures past | D |
| He sails that hath in governance | C |
| My life while it will last | D |
| With scalding sighs for lack of gale | E |
| Furthering his hope that is his sail | E |
| Toward me the swete port of his avail | E |
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| Alas how oft in dreams I see | C |
| Those eyes that were my food | F |
| Which sometime so delighted me | C |
| That yet they do me good | G |
| Wherewith I wake with his return | H |
| Whose absent flame did make me burn | H |
| But when I find the lack Lord how I mourn | I |
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| When other lovers in arms across | C |
| Rejoice their chief delight | B |
| Drown egrave d in tears to mourn my loss | C |
| I stand the bitter night | B |
| In my window where I may see | C |
| Before the winds how the clouds flee | C |
| Lo what a mariner love hath made me | C |
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| And in green waves when the salt flood | J |
| Doth rise by rage of wind | K |
| A thousand fancies in that mood | F |
| Assail my restless mind | K |
| Alas now drencheth my sweet foe | L |
| That with the spoil of my heart did go | L |
| And left me but alas why did he so | L |
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| And when the seas wax calm again | M |
| To chase fro me annoy | N |
| My doubtful hope doth cause me plain | O |
| So dread cuts off my joy | N |
| Thus is my wealth mingled with woe | L |
| And of each thought a doubt doth grow | L |
| Now he comes Will he come Alas no no | L |
Henry Howard
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