Geoffrey Keating Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FBFG HCIC JKJK AAAA| O woman full of wiliness | A |
| Although for love of me you pine | B |
| Withhold your hand adventurous | A |
| It holdeth nothing holding mine | B |
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| Look on my head how it is grey | C |
| My body's weakness doth appear | D |
| My blood is chill and thin my day | C |
| Is done and there is nothing here | E |
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| Do not call me a foolish man | F |
| Nor lean your lovely cheek to mine | B |
| O slender witch our bodies can | F |
| Not mingle now nor any time | G |
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| So take your mouth from mine your hand | H |
| From mine ah take your lips away | C |
| Lest heat to will should ripen and | I |
| All this be grave that had been gay | C |
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| It is this curl a silken nest | J |
| And this grey eye bright as the dew | K |
| And this round lovely snow white breast | J |
| That draws desire in search of you | K |
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| I would do all for you meseems | A |
| But this tho' this were happiness | A |
| I shall not mingle in your dreams | A |
| O woman full of wiliness | A |
James Stephens
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