The Forsaken Lover Describeth And Forsaketh Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLMLM NMNMOPOP CMCMMMMM| O LOATHSOME place where I | A |
| Have seen and heard my dear | B |
| When in my heart her eye | A |
| Hath made her thought appear | B |
| By glimpsing with such grace | C |
| As fortune it ne would | D |
| That lasten any space | C |
| Between us longer should | D |
| - | |
| As fortune did advance | E |
| To further my desire | F |
| Even so hath fortune's chance | E |
| Thrown all amidst the mire | G |
| And that I have deserved | H |
| With true and faithful heart | I |
| Is to his hands reserved | H |
| That never felt a smart | I |
| - | |
| But happy is that man | J |
| That scaped hath the grief | K |
| That love well teach him can | J |
| By wanting his relief | K |
| A scourge to quiet minds | L |
| It is who taketh heed | M |
| A common plage that binds | L |
| A travail without meed | M |
| - | |
| This gift it hath also | N |
| Whoso enjoys it most | M |
| A thousand troubles grow | N |
| To vex his wearied ghost | M |
| And last it may not long | O |
| The truest thing of all | P |
| And sure the greatest wrong | O |
| That is within this thrall | P |
| - | |
| But since thou desert place | C |
| Canst give me no account | M |
| Of my desired grace | C |
| That I to have was wont | M |
| Farewell thou hast me taught | M |
| To think me not the first | M |
| That love hath set aloft | M |
| And casten in the dust | M |
Henry Howard
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