Too Dearly Had I Bought Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBFFGGHHIIJJ KK| Too dearly had I bought my green and youthful years | A |
| If in mine age I could not find when craft for love appears | A |
| And seldom though I come in court among the rest | B |
| Yet can I judge in colors dim as deep as can the best | B |
| Where grief torments the man that suff'reth secret smart | C |
| To break it forth unto some friend it easeth well the heart | C |
| So stands it now with me for my beloved friend | D |
| This case is thine for whom I feel such torment of my mind | E |
| And for thy sake I burn so in my secret breast | B |
| That till thou know my whole disease my heart can have no rest | B |
| I see how thine abuse hath wrested so thy wits | F |
| That all it yields to thy desire and follows thee by fits | F |
| Where thou hast loved so long with heart and all thy power | G |
| I see thee fed with feigned words thy freedom to devour | G |
| I know though she say nay and would it well withstand | H |
| When in her grace thou held the most she bare thee but in hand | H |
| I see her pleasant cheer in chiefest of thy suit | I |
| When thou are gone I see him come that gathers up the fruit | I |
| And eke in thy respect I see the base degree | J |
| Of him to whom she gave the heart that promised was to thee | J |
| I see what would you more stood never man so sure | K |
| On woman's word but wisdom would mistrust it to endure | K |
Henry Howard
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