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"A Lover's Complaint" is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of ''Shakespeare's Sonnets''. It is given the title "A Lover's Complaint" in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. Although published as Shakespeare's work, the poem's authorship has become a matter of critical debate. The majority opinion is that it is by Shakespeare, though of inferior quality to his other works. == Form and content == The poem consists of forty-seven seven-line stanzas written in the rhyme royal (with the rhyme scheme ababbcc), a metre and structure identical to that of Shakespeare's poem ''The Rape of Lucrece''. After a scene-setting introduction, the poem takes the form of a lengthy speech by an abandoned young woman, including a speech within her speech, as she recounts the words by which she was seduced. The poem begans with the speaker describing seeing a young woman weeping at the edge of a river, into which she throws torn-up letters, rings, and other tokens of love. An old man nearby approaches the woman and asks the reason for her sorrow. She responds by telling him of a former lover who pursued, seduced, and finally abandoned her. She recounts in detail the speech her lover gave to her which seduced her. She concludes her story by conceding that she would fall for the young man's false charms again: :O that infected moisture of his eye, :O that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd, :O that forc'd thunder from his heart did fly, :O that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd, :O all that borrowed motion seemingly ow'd, ::Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd, ::And new pervert a reconciled maid! 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Lover's Complaint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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