Valiant Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDDEF AGHGIDFFDD AJKKKDLLDDI | 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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