The Heart And Service Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDB EBEB FBFB GBHB IBIB| The heart and service to you proffer'd | A |
| With right good will full honestly | B |
| Refuse it not since it is offer'd | A |
| But take it to you gentlely | B |
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| And though it be a small present | C |
| Yet good consider graciously | B |
| The thought the mind and the intent | D |
| Of him that loves you faithfully | B |
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| It were a thing of small effect | E |
| To work my woe thus cruelly | B |
| For my good will to be abject | E |
| Therefore accept it lovingly | B |
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| Pain or travel to run or ride | F |
| I undertake it pleasantly | B |
| Bid ye me go and straight I glide | F |
| At your commandement humbly | B |
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| Pain or pleasure now may you plant | G |
| Even which it please you steadfastly | B |
| Do which you list I shall not want | H |
| To be your servant secretly | B |
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| And since so much I do desire | I |
| To be your own assuredly | B |
| For all my service and my hire | I |
| Reward your servant liberally | B |
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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