A Lover's Complaint

The lovers suit ( engl. A Lover 's Complaint ) is a 1609 resulting poetic tale of William Shakespeare, perhaps the least appreciated poetry & poet, possibly his first poem. Shakespeare's authorship is disputed.

The poem consists of 47 seven-line stanzas in rhyme scheme ( ababbcc ).

The speaker of the poem tells how a young woman sitting crying on the banks of a river and throwing the remnants of a disappointed love affair in the river. An elderly shepherd asks her why she is sad and crying, and she told him how her former lover, a charmer who seduced and eventually left. His false charm charmed them.

Sample rhyme:

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