To A Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA ACDDC DDDDD| Sweet rois of vertew and of gentilness | A |
| Delytsum lily of everie lustynes | A |
| Richest in bontie and in bewtie clear | B |
| And everie vertew that is wenit dear | B |
| Except onlie that ye are mercyless | A |
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| Into your garth this day I did persew | A |
| There saw I flowris that fresche were of hew | C |
| Baith quhyte and reid most lusty were to seyne | D |
| And halesome herbis upon stalkis greene | D |
| Yet leaf nor flowr find could I nane of rew | C |
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| I doubt that Merche with his cauld blastis keyne | D |
| Has slain this gentil herb that I of mene | D |
| Quhois piteous death dois to my heart sic paine | D |
| That I would make to plant his root againe | D |
| So confortand his levis unto me bene | D |
William Dunbar
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