Farewell And Defiance To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGAGA HIHIJKJL MNMNOPOP QRQSTUTVWEWEXYXY YZYZYAYA A2B2C2B2PD2PD2 YYYYIVIV YE2YE2YYYYLove and thy vain employs away | A |
From this too oft deluded breast | B |
No longer will I court thy stay | A |
To be my bosom's teazing guest | B |
Thou treacherous medicine reckoned pure | C |
Thou quackery of the harassed heart | D |
That kills what it pretends to cure | C |
Life's mountebank thou art | D |
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With nostrums vain of boasted powers | E |
That ta'en a worse disorder leave | F |
An asp hid in a group of flowers | E |
That bites and stings when few perceive | F |
Thou mock truce to the troubled mind | G |
Leading it more in sorrow's way | A |
Freedom that leaves us more confined | G |
I bid thee hence away | A |
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Dost taunt and deem thy power beyond | H |
The resolution reason gave | I |
Tut Falsity hath snapt each bond | H |
That kept me once thy quiet slave | I |
And made thy snare a spider's thread | J |
Which een my breath can break in twain | K |
Nor will I be like Sampson led | J |
To trust thy wiles again | L |
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I took thee as my staff to guide | M |
Me on the road I did pursue | N |
And when my weakness most relied | M |
Upon its strength it broke in two | N |
I took thee as my friendly host | O |
That counsel might in dangers show | P |
But when I needed thee the most | O |
I found thou wert my foe | P |
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Tempt me no more with rosy cheeks | Q |
Nor daze my reason with bright eyes | R |
I'm wearied with thy painted freaks | Q |
And sicken at such vanities | S |
Be roses fine as eer they will | T |
They with the meanest fade and die | U |
And eyes though thronged with darts to kill | T |
Share like mortality | V |
Feed the young bard that madly sips | W |
His nectar draughts from folly's flowers | E |
Bright eyes fair cheeks and ruby lips | W |
Till muses melt to honey showers | E |
Lure him to thrum thy empty lays | X |
While flattery listens to the chimes | Y |
Till words themselves grow sick with praise | X |
And stop for want of rhymes | Y |
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Let such be still thy paramours | Y |
And chaunt love's old and idle tune | Z |
Robbing the spring of all its flowers | Y |
And heaven of all her stars and moon | Z |
To gild with dazzling similes | Y |
Blind folly's vain and empty lay | A |
I'm sobered from such phantasies | Y |
So get thee hence away | A |
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Nor bid me sigh for mine own cost | A2 |
Nor count its loss for mine annoy | B2 |
Nor say my stubbornness hath lost | C2 |
A paradise of dainty joy | B2 |
I'll not believe thee till I know | P |
That sober reason turns an ape | D2 |
And acts the harlequin to show | P |
That cares in every shape | D2 |
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Heart achings sighs and grief wrung tears | Y |
Shame blushes at betrayed distress | Y |
Dissembled smiles and jealous fears | Y |
Are nought but real happiness | Y |
Then will I mourn what now I brave | I |
And suffer Celia's quirks to be | V |
Like a poor fate bewilder'd slave | I |
The rulers of my destiny | V |
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I'll weep and sigh wheneer she wills | Y |
To frown and when she deigns to smile | E2 |
It shall be cure for all my ills | Y |
And foolish still I'll laugh the while | E2 |
But till that comes I'll bless the rules | Y |
Experience taught and deem it wise | Y |
To hold thee as the game of fools | Y |
And all thy tricks despise | Y |
John Clare
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