Ronsard To His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DADAEFE AGAGBHBH IJIKLM NINIOPOP| 'Quand vous serez bien vielle le soir a la chandelle | A |
| Assise aupres du feu devisant et filant | B |
| Direz chantant mes vers en vous esmerveillant | B |
| Ronsard m'a celebre du temps que j'etois belle ' | C |
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| Some winter night shut snugly in | D |
| Beside the fagot in the hall | A |
| I think I see you sit and spin | D |
| Surrounded by your maidens all | A |
| Old tales are told old songs are sung | E |
| Old days come back to memory | F |
| You say 'When I was fair and young | E |
| A poet sang of me ' | - |
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| There's not a maiden in your hall | A |
| Though tired and sleepy ever so | G |
| But wakes as you my name recall | A |
| And longs the history to know | G |
| And as the piteous tale is said | B |
| Of lady cold and lover true | H |
| Each musing carries it to bed | B |
| And sighs and envies you | H |
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| 'Our lady's old and feeble now ' | - |
| They'll say 'she once was fresh and fair | I |
| And yet she spurn'd her lover's vow | J |
| And heartless left him to despair | I |
| The lover lies in silent earth | K |
| No kindly mate the lady cheers | L |
| She sits beside a lonely hearth | M |
| With threescore and ten years ' | - |
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| Ah dreary thoughts and dreams are those | N |
| But wherefore yield me to despair | I |
| While yet the poet's bosom glows | N |
| While yet the dame is peerless fair | I |
| Sweet lady mine while yet 'tis time | O |
| Requite my passion and my truth | P |
| And gather in their blushing prime | O |
| The roses of your youth | P |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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