A Seventeenth-century Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBA CDCDBBD CCCCBBC CECEBBE| She alone of Shepherdesses | A |
| With her blue disdayning eyes | A |
| Wo'd not hark a Kyng that dresses | A |
| All his lute in sighes | A |
| Yet to winne | B |
| Katheryn | B |
| I elect for mine Emprise | A |
| - | |
| None is like her none above her | C |
| Who so lifts my youth in me | D |
| That a littel more to love her | C |
| Were to leave her free | D |
| But to winne | B |
| Katheryn | B |
| Is mine utmost love's degree | D |
| - | |
| Distaunce cold delay and danger | C |
| Build the four walles of her bower | C |
| She's noe Sweete for any stranger | C |
| She's noe valley flower | C |
| And to winne | B |
| Katheryn | B |
| To her height my heart can Tower | C |
| - | |
| Uppe to Beautie's promontory | C |
| I will climb not loudlie call | E |
| Perfect and escaping glory | C |
| Folly if I fall | E |
| Well to winne | B |
| Katheryn | B |
| To be worth her is my all | E |
Louise Imogen Guiney
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