In Allusion To The French Song. N'entendez Vous Pas Ce Language Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDEEFFGG BB HHIIJJKL BB IIMMIINO BB LIIIIPP BB| CHORUS | A |
| THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT FAIR CHOICE | B |
| THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE | B |
| - | |
| I | - |
| How often have my tears | C |
| Invaded your soft ears | D |
| And dropp'd their silent chimes | E |
| A thousand thousand times | E |
| Whilst echo did your eyes | F |
| And sweetly sympathize | F |
| But that the wary lid | G |
| Their sluces did forbid | G |
| - | |
| Cho THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT FAIR CHOICE | B |
| THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE | B |
| - | |
| II | - |
| My arms did plead my wound | H |
| Each in the other bound | H |
| Volleys of sighs did crowd | I |
| And ring my griefs alowd | I |
| Grones like a canon ball | J |
| Batter'd the marble wall | J |
| That the kind neighb'ring grove | K |
| Did mutiny for love | L |
| - | |
| Cho THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT FAIR CHOICE | B |
| THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE | B |
| - | |
| III | - |
| The rheth'rick of my hand | I |
| Woo'd you to understand | I |
| Nay in our silent walk | M |
| My very feet would talk | M |
| My knees were eloquent | I |
| And spake the love I meant | I |
| But deaf unto that ayr | N |
| They bent would fall in prayer | O |
| - | |
| Cho YET UNDERSTAND YOU NOT FAIR CHOICE | B |
| THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE | B |
| - | |
| IV | L |
| No Know then I would melt | I |
| On every limb I felt | I |
| And on each naked part | I |
| Spread my expanded heart | I |
| That not a vein of thee | P |
| But should be fill'd with mee | P |
| Whilst on thine own down I | - |
| Would tumble pant and dye | - |
| - | |
| Cho YOU UNDERSTAND NOT THIS FAIR CHOICE | B |
| THIS LANGUAGE WANTS BOTH TONGUE AND VOICE | B |
Richard Lovelace
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