A Sweet Contention Between Love, His Mistress, And Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQR SBTB SUVU OWEX O W| Love and my mistress were at strife | A |
| Who had the greatest power on me | B |
| Betwixt them both oh what a life | A |
| Nay what a death is this to be | B |
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| She said she did it with her eye | C |
| He said he did it with his dart | D |
| Betwixt them both a silly wretch | E |
| 'Tis I that have the wounded heart | D |
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| She said she only spake the word | F |
| That did enchant my peering sense | G |
| He said he only gave the sound | H |
| That enter'd heart without defence | G |
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| She said her beauty was the mark | I |
| That did amaze the highest mind | J |
| He said he only made the mist | K |
| Whereby the senses grew so blind | J |
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| She said that only for her sake | L |
| The best would venture life and limb | M |
| He said she was too much deceiv'd | N |
| They honour'd her because of him | M |
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| Long while alas she would not yield | O |
| But it was she that rul'd the roost | P |
| Until by proof she did confess | Q |
| If he were gone her joy was lost | R |
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| And then she cried Oh dainty love | S |
| I now do find it is for thee | B |
| That I am lov'd and honour'd both | T |
| And thou hast power to conquer me | B |
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| But when I heard her yield to love | S |
| Oh how my heart did leap for joy | U |
| That now I had some little hope | V |
| To have an end to mine annoy | U |
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| But as too soon before the field | O |
| The trumpets sound the overthrow | W |
| So all too soon I joy'd too much | E |
| For I awaked and nothing saw | X |
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| Note The original had 'roast' | O |
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| Footnote Ellis reads so | W |
Nicholas Breton
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