To His Rivall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEEFFE CCFGHF EECDDC EEECCE IICHHC JJECCE DDDHHD DDCDDC| Her lou'd I most | A |
| By thee that 's lost | B |
| Though she were wonne with leasure | C |
| She was my gaine | D |
| But to my paine | D |
| Thou spoyl'st me of my Treasure | C |
| - | |
| The Ship full fraught | E |
| With Gold farre sought | E |
| Though ne'r so wisely helmed | E |
| May suffer wracke | F |
| In sayling backe | F |
| By Tempest ouer whelmed | E |
| - | |
| But shee good Sir | C |
| Did not preferre | C |
| You for that I was ranging | F |
| But for that shee | G |
| Found faith in mee | H |
| And she lou'd to be changing | F |
| - | |
| Therefore boast not | E |
| Your happy Lot | E |
| Be silent now you haue her | C |
| The time I knew | D |
| She slighted you | D |
| When I was in her fauour | C |
| - | |
| None stands so fast | E |
| But may be cast | E |
| By Fortune and disgraced | E |
| Once did I weare | C |
| Her Garter there | C |
| Where you her Gloue haue placed | E |
| - | |
| I had the Vow | I |
| That thou hast now | I |
| And Glances to discouer | C |
| Her Loue to mee | H |
| And she to thee | H |
| Reades but old Lessons ouer | C |
| - | |
| She hath no Smile | J |
| That can beguile | J |
| But as my Thought I know it | E |
| Yea to a Hayre | C |
| Both when and where | C |
| And how she will bestow it | E |
| - | |
| What now is thine | D |
| Was onely mine | D |
| And first to me was giuen | D |
| Thou laugh'st at mee | H |
| I laugh at thee | H |
| And thus we two are euen | D |
| - | |
| But Ile not mourne | D |
| But stay my Turne | D |
| The Wind may come about Sir | C |
| And once againe | D |
| May bring me in | D |
| And help to beare you out Sir | C |
Michael Drayton
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