Description Of The Restless State Of A Lover. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DEDE FGFG HFHF IFIF JHJH EKEK| WHEN youth had led me half the race | A |
| That Cupid's scourge had made me run | B |
| I looked back to mete the place | A |
| From whence my weary course begun | B |
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| And then I saw how my desire | C |
| By guiding ill had led the way | D |
| Mine eyen to greedy of their hire | C |
| Had made me lose a better prey | D |
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| For when in sighs I spent the day | D |
| And could not cloak my grief with game | E |
| The boiling smoke did still bewray | D |
| The present heat of secret flame | E |
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| And when salt tears do bain my breast | F |
| Where Love his pleasant trains hath sown | G |
| Her beauty hath the fruits opprest | F |
| Ere that the buds were sprung and blown | G |
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| And when mine eyen did still pursue | H |
| The flying chase of their request | F |
| Their greedy looks did oft renew | H |
| The hidden wound within my breast | F |
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| When every look these cheeks might stain | I |
| From deadly pale to glowing red | F |
| By outward signs appeared plain | I |
| To her for help my heart was fled | F |
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| But all too late Love learneth me | J |
| To paint all kind of colours new | H |
| To blind their eyes that else should see | J |
| My speckled cheeks with Cupid's hue | H |
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| And now the covert breast I claim | E |
| That worshipp'd Cupid secretely | K |
| And nourished his sacred flame | E |
| From whence no blazing sparks do fly | K |
Henry Howard
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