The Short Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHHIJKKDLMN OOPPLLQR| Like an Oblation set before a Shrine | A |
| Fair One I offer up this heart of mine | A |
| Whether the Saint accept my Gift or no | B |
| Ile neither fear nor doubt before I know | B |
| For he whose faint distrust prevents reply | C |
| Doth his own suits denial prophecy | D |
| Your will the sentence is Who free as Fate | E |
| Can bid my love proceed or else retreat | F |
| And from short views that verdict is decreed | G |
| Which seldom doth one audience exceed | G |
| Love asks no dull probation but like light | H |
| Conveyes his nimble influence at first sight | H |
| I need not therefore importune or press | I |
| This were t'extort unwilling happiness | J |
| And much against affection might I sin | K |
| To tire and weary what I seek to win | K |
| Towns which by lingring siege enforced be | D |
| Oft make both sides repent the victorie | L |
| Be Mistriss of your self and let me thrive | M |
| Or suffer by your own prerogative | N |
| Yet stay since you are Judge who in one breath | O |
| Bear uncontrolled power of Life and Death | O |
| Remember Sweet pity doth best become | P |
| Those lips which must pronounce a Suitors doome | P |
| If I find that my spark of chast desire | L |
| Shall kindle into Hymens holy sire | L |
| Else like sad flowers will these verses prove | Q |
| To stick the Coffin of rejected Love | R |
Henry King
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