The Lover Excuseth Himself Of Suspected Change. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DDDDBEBE FBFBGBHB BBBBBIBIJBJBKIKI DBDBLMLM| THOUGH I regarded not | A |
| The promise made by me | B |
| Or passed not to spot | A |
| My faith and honesty | B |
| Yet were my fancy strange | C |
| And wilful will to wite | B |
| If I sought now to change | C |
| A falcon for a kite | B |
| - | |
| All men might well dispraise | D |
| My wit and enterprise | D |
| If I esteemed a pese | D |
| Above a pearl in price | D |
| Or judged the owl in sight | B |
| The sparhawk to excel | E |
| Which flieth but in the night | B |
| As all men know right well | E |
| - | |
| Or if I sought to sail | F |
| Into the brittle port | B |
| Where anchor hold doth fail | F |
| To such as do resort | B |
| And leave the haven sure | G |
| Where blows no blustering wind | B |
| No fickleness in ure | H |
| So far forth as I find | B |
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| No think me not so light | B |
| Nor of so churlish kind | B |
| Though it lay in my might | B |
| My bondage to unbind | B |
| That I would leave the hind | B |
| To hunt the gander's foe | I |
| No no I have no mind | B |
| To make exchanges so | I |
| Nor yet to change at all | J |
| For think it may not be | B |
| That I should seek to fall | J |
| From my felicity | B |
| Desirous for to win | K |
| And loth for to forego | I |
| Or new change to begin | K |
| How may all this be so | I |
| - | |
| The fire it cannot freeze | D |
| For it is not his kind | B |
| Nor true love cannot lese | D |
| The constance of the mind | B |
| Yet as soon shall the fire | L |
| Want heat to blaze and burn | M |
| As I in such desire | L |
| Have once a thought to turn | M |
Henry Howard
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The Lover Excuseth Himself Of Suspected Change. is a poem by Henry Howard. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.