Stanzas To Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM HNHN OPOP| Ah poor Love why dost thou live | A |
| Thus to see thy service lost | B |
| If she will no comfort give | C |
| Make an end yield up the ghost | D |
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| That she may at length approve | E |
| That she hardly long believed | F |
| That the heart will die for love | G |
| That is not in time relieved | F |
| - | |
| Oh that ever I was born | H |
| Service so to be refused | I |
| Faithful love to be forborn | H |
| Never love was so abused | I |
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| But sweet Love be still awhile | J |
| She that hurt thee Love may heal thee | K |
| Sweet I see within her smile | J |
| More than reason can reveal thee | K |
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| For though she be rich and fair | L |
| Yet she is both wise and kind | M |
| And therefore do thou not despair | L |
| But thy faith may fancy find | M |
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| Yet although she be a queen | H |
| That may such a snake despise | N |
| Yet with silence all unseen | H |
| Run and hide thee in her eyes | N |
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| Where if she will let thee die | O |
| Yet at latest gasp of breath | P |
| Say that in a lady's eye | O |
| Love both took his life and death | P |
Sir Philip Sidney
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