Love's Exchange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCECC FGFGHH IJIJCC| Simple am I I care no whit | A |
| For pelf or place | B |
| It is enough for me to sit | A |
| And watch Dulcinea's face | B |
| To mark the lights and shadows flit | A |
| Across the silver moon of it | A |
| - | |
| I have no other merchandise | C |
| No stocks or shares | D |
| No other gold but just what lies | C |
| In those deep eyes of hers | E |
| And sure if all the world were wise | C |
| It too would bank within her eyes | C |
| - | |
| I buy up all her smiles all day | F |
| With all my love | G |
| And sell them back cost price or say | F |
| A kiss or two above | G |
| It is a speculation fine | H |
| The profit must be always mine | H |
| - | |
| The world has many things 'tis true | I |
| To fill its time | J |
| Far more important things to do | I |
| Than making love and rhyme | J |
| Yet if it asked me to advise | C |
| I'd say buy up Dulcinea's eyes | C |
Richard Le Gallienne
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