Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDCCBB EEFFGH BBBBCC| Foolish love is only folly | A |
| Wanton love is too unholy | A |
| Greedy love is covetous | B |
| Idle love is frivolous | B |
| But the gracious love is it | C |
| That doth prove the work of it | C |
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| Beauty but deceives the eye | D |
| Flattery leads the ear awry | D |
| Wealth doth but enchant the wit | C |
| Want the overthrow of it | C |
| While in Wisdom's worthy grace | B |
| Virtue sees the sweetest face | B |
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| There hath Love found out his life | E |
| Peace without all thought of strife | E |
| Kindness in Discretion's care | F |
| Truth that clearly doth declare | F |
| Faith doth in true fancy prove | G |
| Lust the excrements of Love | H |
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| Then in faith may fancy see | B |
| How my love may constru'd be | B |
| How it grows and what it seeks | B |
| How it lives and what it likes | B |
| So in highest grace regard it | C |
| Or in lowest scorn discard it | C |
Nicholas Breton
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