Geue Place Ye Louers, Here Before Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC CACADE CCCCAA CCCCBB FCFCBB| Geue place ye louers here before | A |
| That spent your bostes and bragges in vaine | B |
| My Ladies beawtie passeth more | A |
| The best of yours I dare well sayen | B |
| Than doth the sonne the candle light | C |
| Or brightest day the darkest night | C |
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| And thereto hath a trothe as iust | C |
| As had Penelope the fayre | A |
| For what she saith ye may it trust | C |
| As it by writing sealed were | A |
| And vertues hath she many moe | D |
| Than I with pen haue skill to showe | E |
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| I coulde rehearse if that I wolde | C |
| The whole effect of natures plaint | C |
| When she had lost the perfit mold | C |
| The like to whom she could not paint | C |
| With wringyng handes howe she dyd cry | A |
| And what she said I know it I | A |
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| I knowe she swore with ragyng mynd | C |
| Her kingdom onely set apart | C |
| There was no losse by lawe of kind | C |
| That could haue gone so nere her hart | C |
| And this was chiefly all her payne | B |
| She coulde not make the lyke agayne | B |
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| Sith nature thus gaue her the prayse | F |
| To be the chiefest worke she wrought | C |
| In faith me thinke some better waies | F |
| On your behalfe might well be sought | C |
| Then to compare as ye haue done | B |
| To matche the candle with the sonne | B |
Henry Howard
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