A Quarrel With Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI FHFH GJGJ GGGG| Oh that I could write a story | A |
| Of love's dealing with affection | B |
| How he makes the spirit sorry | A |
| That is touch'd with his infection | B |
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| But he doth so closely wind him | C |
| In the plaits of will ill pleased | D |
| That the heart can never find him | C |
| Till it be too much diseased | D |
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| 'Tis a subtle kind or spirit | E |
| Of a venom kind of nature | F |
| That can like a coney ferret | E |
| Creep unawares upon a creature | F |
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| Never eye that can behold it | G |
| Though it worketh first by seeing | H |
| Nor conceit that can unfold it | G |
| Though in thoughts be all its being | H |
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| Oh it maketh old men witty | A |
| Young men wanton women idle | I |
| While that patience weeps for pity | A |
| Reason bite not nature's bridle | I |
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| What it is in conjecture | F |
| Seeking much but nothing finding | H |
| Like to fancy's architecture | F |
| With illusions reason blinding | H |
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| Yet can beauty so retain it | G |
| In the profit of her service | J |
| That she closely can maintain it | G |
| For her servant chief on office | J |
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| In her eye she chiefly breeds it | G |
| In her cheeks she chiefly hides it | G |
| In her servant's faith she feeds it | G |
| While his only heart abides it | G |
Nicholas Breton
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