A Lover's Complaint

A Lover's Complaint was printed with Thorpe's 1609 edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. Like The Rape of Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint is written in rhyme royale stanzas but is much shorter, at just over 300 lines. The poem tells the story of a woman seduced by a womanizing young man. In 1601, an untitled poem by Shakespeare appeared in a collection entitled Love's Martyr. Scholars have given it the title The Phoenix and the Turtle based on the thematic subject of the collection.

Summary was taken from: http://www.bardweb.net/plays/index.html

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