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 |
| - | |
| 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
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Lover Excuseth Himself Of Suspected Change. poem by Henry Howard
Best Poems of Henry Howard