Valiant Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDDEF AGHGIDFFDD AJKKKDLLDD| I | A |
| Now fie upon that everlasting life I dye | A |
| She hates Ah me It makes me mad | B |
| As if love fir'd his torch at a moist eye | A |
| Or with his joyes e're crown'd the sad | B |
| Oh let me live and shout when I fall on | C |
| Let me ev'n triumph in the first attempt | D |
| Loves duellist from conquest 's not exempt | D |
| When his fair murdresse shall not gain one groan | E |
| And he expire ev'n in ovation | F |
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| II | A |
| Let me make my approach when I lye downe | G |
| With counter wrought and travers eyes | H |
| With peals of confidence batter the towne | G |
| Had ever beggar yet the keyes | I |
| No I will vary stormes with sun and winde | D |
| Be rough and offer calme condition | F |
| March in and pread or starve the garrison | F |
| Let her make sallies hourely yet I'le find | D |
| Though all beat of shee's to be undermin'd | D |
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| III | A |
| Then may it please your little excellence | J |
| Of hearts t' ordaine by sound of lips | K |
| That henceforth none in tears dare love comence | K |
| Her thoughts ith' full his in th' eclipse | K |
| On paine of having 's launce broke on her bed | D |
| That he be branded all free beauties' slave | L |
| And his own hollow eyes be domb'd his grave | L |
| Since in your hoast that coward nere was fed | D |
| Who to his prostrate ere was prostrated | D |
Richard Lovelace
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Valiant Love is a poem by Richard Lovelace. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.