Delia Vi: Fair Is My Love, And Cruel As She's Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDBDEBEBFF| VI | A |
| Fair is my love and cruel as she's fair | B |
| Her brow shades frowns although her eyes are sunny | C |
| Her smiles are lightning though her pride despair | B |
| And her disdains are gall her favours honey | C |
| A modest maid deck'd with a blush of honour | B |
| Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love | D |
| The wonder of all eyes that look upon her | B |
| Sacred on earth design'd a saint above | D |
| Chastity and beauty which were deadly foes | E |
| Live reconciled friends within her brow | B |
| And had she pity to conjoin with those | E |
| Then who had heard the plaints I utter now | B |
| For had she not been fair and thus unkind | F |
| My muse had slept and none had known my mind | F |
Samuel Daniel
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