When I Was Fair And Young Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB BCCB BDDB BEEBB| When I was fair and young then favor graced me | A |
| Of many was I sought their mistress for to be | A |
| But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore | B |
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| Go go go seek some other where importune me no more | B |
| How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe | C |
| How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show | C |
| But I the prouder grew and still this spake therefore | B |
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| Go go go seek some other where importune me no more | B |
| Then spake fair Venus son that proud victorious boy | D |
| Saying You dainty dame for that you be so coy | D |
| I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more | B |
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| Go go go seek some other where importune me no more | B |
| As soon as he had said such change grew in my breast | E |
| That neither night nor day I could take any rest | E |
| Wherefore I did repent that I had said before | B |
| Go go go seek some other where importune me no more | B |
Queen Elizabeth I
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