Adieu To My False Love Forever Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC AAAC DDDD EEED FFFG HHIG DDDG JDDG DDDE CCCE KKKG| The week before Easter the days long and clear | A |
| So bright shone the sun and so cool blew the air | B |
| I went in the meadow some flowers to find there | B |
| But the meadow would yield me no posies | C |
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| The weather like love did deceitful appear | A |
| And I wandered alone when my sorrow was near | A |
| For the thorn that wounds deeply doth bide the whole year | A |
| When the bush it is naked of roses | C |
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| I courted a girl that was handsome and gay | D |
| I thought her as constant and true as the day | D |
| Till she married for riches and said my love Nay | D |
| And so my poor heart got requited | D |
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| I was bid to the bridal I could not say No | E |
| The bridemen and maidens they made a fine show | E |
| I smiled like the rest but my heart it was low | E |
| To think how its hopes they were blighted | D |
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| The bride started gaily the weather was fine | F |
| Her parents looked after and thought her divine | F |
| She smiled in their faces but looked not in mine | F |
| Indeed I'd no heart to regard her | G |
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| Though love like the poplar doth lift its head high | H |
| The top it may fade and the root it may die | H |
| And they may have heart aches that now live in joy | I |
| But Heaven I'll leave to reward her | G |
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| When I saw my false love in the merry church stand | D |
| With her ring on her finger and her love in her hand | D |
| Smiling out in the joy of her houses and land | D |
| My sighs I strove vainly to smother | G |
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| When my false love for dinner did dainties partake | J |
| I sat me down also but nothing could eat | D |
| I thought her sweet company better than meat | D |
| Although she was tied to another | G |
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| When my false love had gone to her bride bed at night | D |
| My eyes filled with water which made double my sight | D |
| I thought she was there when she'd bade us Good night | D |
| And her chair was put by till the morrow | E |
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| I drank to her joy with a tear on my face | C |
| And the wine glass as usual I pushed on the space | C |
| Nor knew she was gone till I looked at the place | C |
| Such a fool was I made of by sorrow | E |
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| Now make me a bed in yon river so deep | K |
| Let its waves be my mourners nought living will weep | K |
| And there let me lie and take a long sleep | K |
| So adieu to my false love for ever | G |
John Clare
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