My Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDDCCDD ECECFGFGHHGGHH| Bedecked in fashion trim | A |
| With every curl a quiver | B |
| Or leaping light of limb | A |
| O'er rivulet and river | B |
| Or skipping o'er the lea | C |
| On daffodil and daisy | C |
| Or stretched beneath a tree | C |
| All languishing and lazy | C |
| Whatever be her mood | D |
| Be she demurely prude | D |
| Or languishingly lazy | C |
| My lady drives me crazy | C |
| In vain her heart is wooed | D |
| Whatever be her mood | D |
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| What profit should I gain | E |
| Suppose she loved me dearly | C |
| Her coldness turns my brain | E |
| To VERGE of madness merely | C |
| Her kiss though Heaven knows | F |
| To dream of it were treason | G |
| Would tend as I suppose | F |
| To utter loss of reason | G |
| My state is not amiss | H |
| I would not have a kiss | H |
| Which in or out of season | G |
| Might tend to loss of reason | G |
| What profit in such bliss | H |
| A fig for such a kiss | H |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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