Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABABCDCD EFEFGEHE CICIJKLK MLMLCNCN CBCB| To the tune of Wilhelmus van Nassau amp c | A |
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| Who hath his fancy pleas egrave d | A |
| With fruits of happy sight | B |
| Let here his eyes be rais egrave d | A |
| On Nature's sweetest light | B |
| A light which doth dissever | C |
| And yet unite the eyes | D |
| A light which dying never | C |
| Is cause the looker dies | D |
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| She never dies but lasteth | E |
| In life of lover's heart | F |
| He ever dies that wasteth | E |
| In love his chiefest part | F |
| Thus is her life still guarded | G |
| In never dying faith | E |
| Thus is his death rewarded | H |
| Since she lives in his death | E |
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| Look then and die the pleasure | C |
| Doth answer well the pain | I |
| Small loss of mortal treasure | C |
| Who may immortal gain | I |
| Immortal be her graces | J |
| Immortal is her mind | K |
| They fit for heavenly places | L |
| This heaven in it doth bind | K |
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| But eyes these beauties see not | M |
| Nor sense that grace descries | L |
| Yet eyes deprived be not | M |
| From sight of her fair eyes | L |
| Which as of inward glory | C |
| They are the outward seal | N |
| So may they live still sorry | C |
| Which die not in that weal | N |
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| But who hath fancies pleas egrave d | C |
| With fruits of happy sight | B |
| Let here his eyes be rais egrave d | C |
| On Nature's sweetest light | B |
Sir Philip Sidney
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