The Lover Pleads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGG A HHBBIIJJ KKLL| I | A |
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| When I had guineas many a one | B |
| Nought else I lack d 'neath the sun | B |
| I had two eyes the bluest seen | C |
| A perfect shape a gracious mien | C |
| I had a voice might charm the bale | D |
| From a two days widowed nightingale | D |
| And if you ask how this I know | E |
| I had a love who told me so | E |
| The lover pleads the maid hearkeneth | F |
| Her foot turns his day darkeneth | F |
| Love unkind O can it be | G |
| 'T was your foot false did turn from me | G |
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| II | A |
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| The gear is gone the red gold spent | H |
| Favour and beauty with them went | H |
| Eyes take the veil their shining done | B |
| Not fair to him is fair to none | B |
| Sweet as a bee's bag 'twas to taste | I |
| His praise O honey run to waste | I |
| He loved not spoiled is all my way | J |
| In the spoiling of that yesterday | J |
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| The shadows wax the low light alters | K |
| Gold west fades and false heart falters | K |
| The pity of it Love's a rover | L |
| The last word said and all over | L |
Jean Ingelow
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