Love Scorned By Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADAD EFCF GHIH JHJH KLML JFNF OPQP RISI TFUF VWUW| O far is fled the winter wind | A |
| And far is fled the frost and snow | B |
| But the cold scorn on my love's brow | C |
| Hath never yet prepared to go | B |
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| More lasting than ten winters' wind | A |
| More cutting than ten weeks of frost | D |
| Is the chill frowning of thy mind | A |
| Where my poor heart was pledged and lost | D |
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| I see thee taunting down the street | E |
| And by the frowning that I see | F |
| I might have known it long ere now | C |
| Thy love was never meant for me | F |
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| And had I known ere I began | G |
| That love had been so hard to win | H |
| I would have filled my heart with pride | I |
| Nor left one hope to let love in | H |
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| I would have wrapped it in my breast | J |
| And pinned it with a silver pin | H |
| Safe as a bird within its nest | J |
| And 'scaped the trouble I am in | H |
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| I wish I was a happy bird | K |
| And thou a true and timid dove | L |
| O I would fly the land of grief | M |
| And rest me in the land of love | L |
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| O I would rest where I love best | J |
| Where I love best I may not be | F |
| A hawk doth on that rose tree sit | N |
| And drives young love to fear and flee | F |
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| O would I were the goldfinch gay | O |
| My richer suit had tempted strong | P |
| O would I were the nightingale | Q |
| Thou then had'st listened to my song | P |
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| Though deep my scorn I cannot hate | R |
| Thy beauty's sweet though sour thy pride | I |
| To praise thee is to love thee still | S |
| And it doth cheer my heart beside | I |
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| For I could swim the deepest lake | T |
| And I could climb the highest tree | F |
| The greatest danger face and brave | U |
| And all for one kind kiss of thee | F |
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| O love is here and love is there | V |
| O love is like no other thing | W |
| Its frowns can make a king a slave | U |
| Its smiles can make a slave a king | W |
John Clare
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