Song. Farewell, Fair Armida. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFCCEEGG| Farewell fair Armida my joy and my grief | A |
| In vain I have loved you and hope no relief | A |
| Undone by your virtue too strict and severe | B |
| Your eyes gave me love and you gave me despair | C |
| Now call'd by my honour I seek with content | D |
| The fate which in pity you would not prevent | D |
| To languish in love were to find by delay | E |
| A death that's more welcome the speediest way | E |
| On seas and in battles in bullets and fire | F |
| The danger is less than in hopeless desire | F |
| My death's wound you give though far off I bear | C |
| My fall from your sight not to cost you a tear | C |
| But if the kind flood on a wave should convey | E |
| And under your window my body should lay | E |
| The wound on my breast when you happen to see | G |
| You'll say with a sigh it was given by me | G |
John Dryden
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