To His Lute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAC CDEDC FFGFC HHCHC IICIC JJEJC KKEKC ABCAC| My lute awake perform the last | A |
| Labour that thou and I shall waste | B |
| And end that I have now begun | C |
| For when this song is said and past | A |
| My lute be still for I have done | C |
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| As to be heard where ear is none | C |
| As lead to grave in marble stone | D |
| My song may pierce her heart as soon | E |
| Should we then sing or sigh or moan | D |
| No no my lute for I have done | C |
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| The rocks do not so cruelly | F |
| Repulse the waves continually | F |
| As she my suit and affecti ograve n | G |
| So that I am past remedy | F |
| Whereby my lute and I have done | C |
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| Proud of the spoil that thou hast got | H |
| Of simple hearts thorough Love's shot | H |
| By whom unkind thou hast them won | C |
| Think not he hath his bow forgot | H |
| Although my lute and I have done | C |
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| Vengeance shall fall on thy disdain | I |
| That makest but game of earnest pain | I |
| Trow not alone under the sun | C |
| Unquit to cause thy lover's plain | I |
| Although my lute and I have done | C |
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| May chance thee lie wither'd and old | J |
| The winter nights that are so cold | J |
| Plaining in vain unto the moon | E |
| Thy wishes then dare not be told | J |
| Care then who list for I have done | C |
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| And then may chance thee to repent | K |
| The time that thou has lost and spent | K |
| To cause thy lover's sigh and swoon | E |
| Then shalt thou know beauty but lent | K |
| And wish and want as I have done | C |
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| Now cease my lute this is the last | A |
| Labour that thou and I shall waste | B |
| And ended is that we begun | C |
| Now is this song both sung and past | A |
| My lute be still for I have done | C |
Sir Thomas Wyatt
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