Lament For Chaucer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBB CDBEFCC GHHIHJJ| Allas my worthi maister honorable | A |
| This landes verray tresor and richesse | B |
| Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparable | A |
| Unto us doon hir vengeable duresse | B |
| Despoiled hath this land of the swetnesse | B |
| Of rethorik for unto Tullius | B |
| Was never man so lyk amonges us | B |
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| Also who was hier in philosophie | C |
| To Aristotle in our tonge but thou | D |
| The steppes of Virgile in poesie | B |
| Thou folwedist eeke men wot wel ynow | E |
| Thou combre worlde that the my maister slow | F |
| Wolde I slayn were Deth was to hastyf | C |
| To renne on thee and reve the thi lyf | C |
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| She myghte han taried hir vengeance a while | G |
| Til that sum man had egal to the be | H |
| Nay lat be that sche knew wel that this y e | H |
| May never man forth brynge lyk to the | I |
| And hir office needes do mot she | H |
| God bad hir so I truste as for the beste | J |
| O maister maister God thi soule reste | J |
Thomas Hoccleve
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