Love-despondency Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACC ADAEEE AEAEEE EAEAEE AECEEE AEAEAA CECEAA AAAAEE FGAGEE EEEECC HAHFEE A| Devyde my tymes and rate my wretched howres | A |
| From days to months fro months to many yeers | A |
| And than compare my sweetest to my sowres then | B |
| And see wich more in equall vewe appeares | A |
| And judge that from my dayes and yeers of care | C |
| I have but howrs of comforte to compare | C |
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| Just and not muche it were in thes extreams | A |
| To have a touche and torment of ye thought | D |
| For any myghte that any ryght esteems | A |
| To yealde so small delyght so deerly bought | E |
| But he that lyues unto his owne despyghte | E |
| Is not to fynde his fortune by his ryghte | E |
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| The lyfe that styll runs forth his weary wayes | A |
| With sowre to sawce the dayntyes of delyght | E |
| And care to choak the pleasures of his dayes | A |
| And not regarde the many wronges to quyte | E |
| No blame to houlde such ircksome tymes in hate | E |
| As but to lose prolongs a wretched state | E |
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| And still I loathe eve to behoulde the lyghte | E |
| That shynes wthout all pleasure to myne eyes | A |
| Wth greedy wishe I wayte for wearye nyghte | E |
| Yet neither this I fynde that maye suffyse | A |
| Not that I hould the daye for more delyghte | E |
| But that alyke I loathe both daye and nyghte | E |
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| The daye I se yeelds but increase of cares | A |
| The nyght that should by nature serve for reste | E |
| Agaynst his kynde denyes suche ease to spare | C |
| As pytty woulde afforde the soule opprest | E |
| And broken sleeps oft tymes presents in syght | E |
| A dreaminge wishe beguylde with false delyghte | E |
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| This sleepe or else what so for sweet appeers | A |
| Is unto me but pleasures in despyghte | E |
| The flower of age the name of younger yeeres | A |
| Do but usurpe the tytle of delyghte | E |
| But careful thoughts and Sorrowe sundry ways | A |
| Consumes my youthe before my ag d dayes | A |
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| The touch the stynge the torments of desyre | C |
| To stryue beyond the compase of restraynte | E |
| Kepte from the reache whereto it would aspyre | C |
| Geues cause God knowes too iust to my coplainte | E |
| Besydes the wronge wch worketh my distress | A |
| My meaninge is with sylence to suppress | A |
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| Oft wth myselfe I enter in deuyse | A |
| To reconsylle these wearye thoughtes to peace | A |
| I treate for truce I flatter and entyce | A |
| My wranglynge wytts to work for theyr release | A |
| But all in vayne I seek the means to fynde | E |
| That myght appease the discorde of my mynde | E |
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| For when I force a fayn d mirth to showe | F |
| And would forgett and so beguyll my greefe | G |
| I cannot rydd my selfe of sorrowe so | A |
| Althoughe I feed upon a false beleefe | G |
| For inward touche of discontented mynde | E |
| Retournes my cares by course unto theyr kynde | E |
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| Wean'd from my will and thus by tryall taughte | E |
| Howe farr to hould all fortune in regarde | E |
| Though here I boaste of knowledge deerely boughte | E |
| Yet thys poore gayne I reape for my rewarde | E |
| I knowe hereby to harde and prepare | C |
| A ready mynde for all assaults of care | C |
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| Whereto as one eve from the cradle borne | H |
| And not to look for better to ensue | A |
| I yeald my selfe and wish these tymes outworne | H |
| That but remayne my torments to renewe | F |
| And leaue to those these dayes of my despyghte | E |
| Whose better hap may lyue to more delyghte | E |
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| Finis | A |
Sir Edward Dyer
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