Myra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJI IKIKLL| I with whose colours Myra dress'd her head | A |
| I that ware posies of her own hand making | B |
| I that mine own name in the chimneys read | A |
| By Myra finely wrought ere I was waking | B |
| Must I look on in hope time coming may | C |
| With change bring back my turn again to play | C |
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| I that on Sunday at the church stile found | D |
| A garland sweet with true love knots in flowers | E |
| Which I to wear about mine arms was bound | D |
| That each of us might know that all was ours | E |
| Must I lead now an idle life in wishes | F |
| And follow Cupid for his loaves and fishes | G |
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| I that did wear the ring her mother left | H |
| I for whose love she gloried to be blam egrave d | I |
| I with whose eyes her eyes committed theft | H |
| I who did make her blush when I was nam egrave d | I |
| Must I lose ring flowers blush theft and go naked | J |
| Watching with sighs till dead love be awak egrave d | I |
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| Was it for this that I might Myra see | I |
| Washing the water with her beauty's white | K |
| Yet would she never write her love to me | I |
| Thinks wit of change when thoughts are in delight | K |
| Mad girls may safely love as they may leave | L |
| No man can print a kiss lines may deceive | L |
Lord Brooke, Fulke Greville
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