A Lady Forsaken Complayneth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBBDDBBEEFFBB| If pleasures be in painfulness in pleasures doth my body rest | A |
| If joyes accord with carefulness a joyful hart is in my brest | A |
| If prison strong be liberty in liberty long have I been | B |
| If joyes accord with misery who can compare a lyfe to myne | B |
| Who can unbind that is sore bound who can make free yet is sore thrall | C |
| Or how can any means be found to comfort such a wretch withall | C |
| None can but he yet hath my hart convert my pains to comfort then | B |
| Yet since his servant I became most like a bondman have I been | B |
| Since first in bondage I became my word and deed was ever such | D |
| That never once he could me blame except for loving him too much | D |
| Which I can judge no just offence nor cause that I deserved disdayne | B |
| Except he mean through false pretense through forg d love to make a trayne | B |
| Nay nay alas my fain d thoughts my freded and my fain d ruth | E |
| My pleasures past my present plaints shew well I mean but to much truth | E |
| But since I can not him attain against my will I let him goe | F |
| And lest he glorie at my pain I wyl attempt to cloke my woe | F |
| Youth learne by me but do not prove for I have prov d to my pain | B |
| What greeuous greefes do grow by love and what it is to love in vaine | B |
Sir Edward Dyer
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