Voices At The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CCCCC DEDED FBFBG CHCHC AIAIA| Who is it that this dark night | A |
| Underneath my window plaineth | B |
| It is one who from thy sight | A |
| Being ah exiled disdaineth | B |
| Every other vulgar light | A |
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| Why alas and are you he | C |
| Be not yet those fancies change egrave d | C |
| Dear when you find change in me | C |
| Though from me you be estrang egrave d | C |
| Let my change to ruin be | C |
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| Well in absence this will die | D |
| Leave to see and leave to wonder | E |
| Absence sure will help if I | D |
| Can learn how myself to sunder | E |
| From what in my heart doth lie | D |
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| But time will these thoughts remove | F |
| Time doth work what no man knoweth | B |
| Time doth as the subject prove | F |
| With time still the affection groweth | B |
| In the faithful turtle dove | G |
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| What if you new beauties see | C |
| Will not they stir new affection | H |
| I will think they pictures be | C |
| Image like of saints' perfection | H |
| Poorly counterfeiting thee | C |
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| But your reason's purest light | A |
| Bids you leave such minds to nourish | I |
| Dear do reason no such spite | A |
| Never doth thy beauty flourish | I |
| More than in my reason's sight | A |
Sir Philip Sidney
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