Villanelle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA| Apollo left the golden Muse | A |
| And shepherded a mortal's sheep | B |
| Theocritus of Syracuse | A |
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| To mock the giant swain that woo's | A |
| The sea nymph in the sunny deep | B |
| Apollo left the golden Muse | A |
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| Afield he drove his lambs and ewes | A |
| Where Milon and where Battus reap | B |
| Theocritus of Syracuse | A |
| - | |
| To watch thy tunny fishers cruise | A |
| Below the dim Sicilian steep | B |
| Apollo left the golden Muse | A |
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| Ye twain did loiter in the dews | A |
| Ye slept the swain's unfever'd sleep | B |
| Theocritus of Syracuse | A |
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| That Time might half with HIS confuse | A |
| Thy songs like his that laugh and leap | B |
| Theocritus of Syracuse | A |
| Apollo left the golden Muse | A |
Andrew Lang
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