The Sale Of Loves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDECCFGGF HIHIJKJKCCFLLF BMBMNONPQ RERESOSOCCTUUT| I dreamt that in the Paphian groves | A |
| My nets by moonlight laying | B |
| I caught a flight of wanton Loves | C |
| Among the rose beds playing | B |
| Some just had left their silvery shell | D |
| While some were full in feather | E |
| So pretty a lot of Loves to sell | D |
| Were never yet strung together | E |
| Come buy my Loves | C |
| Come buy my Loves | C |
| Ye dames and rose lipped misses | F |
| They're new and bright | G |
| The cost is light | G |
| For the coin of this isle is kisses | F |
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| First Cloris came with looks sedate | H |
| The coin on her lips was ready | I |
| I buy quoth she my Love by weight | H |
| Full grown if you please and steady | I |
| Let mine be light said Fanny pray | J |
| Such lasting toys undo one | K |
| A light little Love that will last to day | J |
| To morrow I'll sport a new one | K |
| Come buy my Loves | C |
| Come buy my Loves | C |
| Ye dames and rose lipped misses | F |
| There's some will keep | L |
| Some light and cheap | L |
| At from ten to twenty kisses | F |
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| The learned Prue took a pert young thing | B |
| To divert her virgin Muse with | M |
| And pluck sometimes a quill from his wing | B |
| To indite her billet doux with | M |
| Poor Cloe would give for a well fledged pair | N |
| Her only eye if you'd ask it | O |
| And Tabitha begged old toothless fair | N |
| For the youngest Love in the basket | P |
| Come buy my Loves etc | Q |
| - | |
| But one was left when Susan came | R |
| One worth them all together | E |
| At sight of her dear looks of shame | R |
| He smiled and pruned his feather | E |
| She wished the boy 'twas more than whim | S |
| Her looks her sighs betrayed it | O |
| But kisses were not enough for him | S |
| I asked a heart and she paid it | O |
| Good by my Loves | C |
| Good by my Loves | C |
| 'Twould make you smile to've seen us | T |
| First trade for this | U |
| Sweet child of bliss | U |
| And then nurse the boy between us | T |
Thomas Moore
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