I Never Saw Youe, Madam, Laye Aparte Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABAABCDDCAA E AAAADAADCDDCAA| I never saw youe madam laye aparte | A |
| Your cornet black in colde nor yet in heate | A |
| Sythe first ye knew of my desire so greate | A |
| which other fances chased cleane from my harte | A |
| Whiles to my self I did the thought reserve | B |
| That so unware did wounde my wofull brest | A |
| Pytie I saw within your hart dyd rest | A |
| But since ye knew I did youe love and serve | B |
| Your golden treese was clad alway in blacke | C |
| Your smilyng lokes were hid thus evermore | D |
| All that withdrawne that I did crave so sore | D |
| So doth this cornet goveme me alacke | C |
| In sommere sonne in winter breath of frost | A |
| Of your faire eies whereby the light is lost | A |
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| Complaint that his ladie after she knew of his loue kept her face alway hidden from him | E |
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| I neuer sawe my Ladye laye apart | A |
| Her cornet blacke in colde nor yet in heate | A |
| Sith first she knew my griefe was growen so great | A |
| Which other fansies driueth from my hart | A |
| That to my selfe I do the thought reserue | D |
| The which vnwares did wounde my wofull brest | A |
| But on her face mine eyes mought neuer rest | A |
| Yet sins she knew I did her loue and serue | D |
| Her golden tresses cladde alway with blacke | C |
| Her smilyng lokes that hid thus euermore | D |
| And that restraines whiche I desire so sore | D |
| So dothe this cornet gouerne me alacke | C |
| In somer sunne in winters breath a frost | A |
| Wherby the light of her faire lokes I lost | A |
Henry Howard
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