The Lover Describeth His Restless State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC FBFB GHIH JKJK BLBA MNMN OPOP| AS oft as I behold and see | A |
| The sovereign beauty that me bound | B |
| The nigher my comfort is to me | A |
| Alas the fresher is my wound | B |
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| As flame doth quench by rage of fire | C |
| And running streams consume by rain | D |
| So doth the sight that I desire | C |
| Appease my grief and deadly pain | D |
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| Like as the fly that see'th the flame | E |
| And thinks to play her in the fire | C |
| That found her woe and sought her game | E |
| Where grief did grow by her desire | C |
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| First when I saw those crystal streams | F |
| Whose beauty made my mortal wound | B |
| I little thought within their beams | F |
| So sweet a venom to have found | B |
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| But wilful will did prick me forth | G |
| Blind Cupid did me whip and guide | H |
| Force made me take my grief in worth | I |
| My fruitless hope my harm did hide | H |
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| Wherein is hid the cruel bit | J |
| Whose sharp repulse none can resist | K |
| And eke the spur that strains each wit | J |
| To run the race against his list | K |
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| As cruel waves full oft be found | B |
| Against the rocks to roar and cry | L |
| So doth my heart full oft rebound | B |
| Against my breast full bitterly | A |
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| And as the spider draws her line | M |
| With labour lost I frame my suit | N |
| The fault is her's the loss is mine | M |
| Of ill sown seed such is the fruit | N |
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| I fall and see mine own decay | O |
| As he that bears flame in his breast | P |
| Forgets for pain to cast away | O |
| The thing that breedeth his unrest | P |
Henry Howard
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