La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JFKF GFGF FLFL GFGF| My limbs are wasted with a flame | A |
| My feet are sore with travelling | B |
| For calling on my Lady's name | A |
| My lips have now forgot to sing | B |
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| O Linnet in the wild rose brake | C |
| Strain for my Love thy melody | D |
| O Lark sing louder for love's sake | C |
| My gentle Lady passeth by | E |
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| She is too fair for any man | F |
| To see or hold his heart's delight | G |
| Fairer than Queen or courtesan | F |
| Or moonlit water in the night | G |
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| Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves | H |
| Green leaves upon her golden hair | I |
| Green grasses through the yellow sheaves | H |
| Of autumn corn are not more fair | I |
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| Her little lips more made to kiss | J |
| Than to cry bitterly for pain | F |
| Are tremulous as brook water is | K |
| Or roses after evening rain | F |
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| Her neck is like white melilote | G |
| Flushing for pleasure of the sun | F |
| The throbbing of the linnet's throat | G |
| Is not so sweet to look upon | F |
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| As a pomegranate cut in twain | F |
| White seeded is her crimson mouth | L |
| Her cheeks are as the fading stain | F |
| Where the peach reddens to the south | L |
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| O twining hands O delicate | G |
| White body made for love and pain | F |
| O House of love O desolate | G |
| Pale flower beaten by the rain | F |
Oscar Fingal O'flahertie Wills Wilde
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