When My Lover Put The Sea Between Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFEACGCABCBHIJI| When my lover put the sea between us | A |
| And went wandering in Italy | B |
| My poor silly heart miscalled his journey | B |
| 'Leaving me' | C |
| Towns of Spain and Italy he stayed in | D |
| Each and all of them to me unknown | E |
| How could he find pleasure being a lover | F |
| Being alone | E |
| Truly I was not as fair as Venice | A |
| Noble as Siena strange as Rome | C |
| Certainly he loved Milan and Florence | G |
| More than home | C |
| I believed his absence had estranged us | A |
| And across the heart dividing sea | B |
| Sent him word that I no longer loved him | C |
| Foolish me | B |
| Came his answer after months of waiting | H |
| Echoing my letter lie for lie | I |
| Truth or lies I know not Which unfaithful | J |
| He or I | I |
Lesbia Harford
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