Alas! What A Wretched Life Is This! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCCC| Alas What a wretched life is this | A |
| Nay what a death Where tyrant Love commandeth | B |
| My flow ring days are in their prime declining | C |
| All my proud hope quite fall n and life untwining | C |
| My joys each after other in haste are flying | C |
| And leave me dying for her that scorns my crying | C |
| Oh she from hence departs my love refraining | C |
| For whom all heartless alas I die complaining | C |
John Wilbye
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