The Forfeiture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJKLMM| My Dearest To let you or the world know | A |
| What Debt of service I do truly ow | A |
| To your unpattern'd self were to require | B |
| A language onely form'd in the desire | B |
| Of him that writes It is the common fate | C |
| Of greatest duties to evaporate | C |
| In silent meaning as we often see | D |
| Fires by their too much fuel smother'd be | D |
| Small Obligations may find vent and speak | E |
| When greater the unable debtor break | F |
| And such are mine to you whose favours store | G |
| Hath made me poorer then I was before | G |
| For I want words and language to declare | H |
| How strict my Bond or large your bounties are | I |
| Since nothing in my desp'rate fortune found | J |
| Can payment make nor yet the summe compound | J |
| You must lose all or else of force accept | K |
| The body of a Bankrupt for your debt | L |
| Then Love your Bond to Execution sue | M |
| And take my self as forfeited to you | M |
Henry King
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