Now What Is Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAA BBBBBB CCCCCC BBBBBB DDDDDD| Now what is Love I pray thee tell | A |
| It is that fountain and that well | A |
| Where pleasure and repentance dwell | A |
| It is perhaps the sauncing bell | A |
| That tolls all into heaven or hell | A |
| And this is Love as I hear tell | A |
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| Yet what is Love I prithee say | B |
| It is a work on holiday | B |
| It is December matched with May | B |
| When lusty bloods in fresh array | B |
| Hear ten months after of the play | B |
| And this is Love as I hear say | B |
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| Yet what is Love good shepherd sain | C |
| It is a sunshine mixed with rain | C |
| It is a toothache or like pain | C |
| It is a game where none hath gain | C |
| The lass saith no yet would full fain | C |
| And this is Love as I hear sain | C |
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| Yet shepherd what is Love I pray | B |
| It is a yes it is a nay | B |
| A pretty kind of sporting fray | B |
| It is a thing will soon away | B |
| Then nymphs take vantage while ye may | B |
| And this is Love as I hear say | B |
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| Yet what is Love good shepherd show | D |
| A thing that creeps it cannot go | D |
| A prize that passeth to and fro | D |
| A thing for one a thing for moe | D |
| And he that proves shall find it so | D |
| And shepherd this is Love I trow | D |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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