A Lyric Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHII JJKK LLGG| My lady love lives far away | A |
| And oh my heart is sad by day | A |
| And ah my tears fall fast by night | B |
| What may I do in such a plight | B |
| - | |
| Why miles grow few when love is fleet | C |
| And love you know hath flying feet | C |
| Break off thy sighs and witness this | D |
| How poor a thing mere distance is | E |
| - | |
| My love knows not I love her so | F |
| And would she scorn me did she know | F |
| How may the tale I would impart | G |
| Attract her ear and storm her heart | G |
| - | |
| Calm thou the tempest in my breast | H |
| Who loves in silence loves the best | H |
| But bide thy time she will awake | I |
| No night so dark but morn will break | I |
| - | |
| But though my heart so strongly yearn | J |
| My lady loves me not in turn | J |
| How may I win the blest reply | K |
| That my void heart shall satisfy | K |
| - | |
| Love breedeth love be thou but true | L |
| And soon thy love shall love thee too | L |
| If Fate hath meant you heart for heart | G |
| There's naught may keep you twain apart | G |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about A Lyric poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Best Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar