Betrayed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH BJBJ KLML NOCO| Dream not of love to think it like | A |
| What waking love may prove to be | B |
| For I dreamed so and broke my heart | C |
| When my false lover slighted me | B |
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| Love like to flowers is sweet when green | D |
| The rose in bud aye best appears | E |
| And she that loves a handsome man | F |
| Should have more wit than she has years | E |
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| I put my finger in a bush | G |
| Thinking the sweeter rose to find | H |
| I pricked my finger to the bone | I |
| And left the sweetest rose behind | H |
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| I threw a stone into the sea | B |
| And deep it sunk into the sand | J |
| And so did my poor heart in me | B |
| When my false lover left the land | J |
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| I watched the sun an hour too soon | K |
| Set into clouds behind the town | L |
| So my false lover left and said | M |
| Good night before the day was down | L |
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| I cropt a lily from the stalk | N |
| And in my hand it died away | O |
| So did my joy so will my heart | C |
| In false love's cruel grasp decay | O |
John Clare
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