Damon The Mower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FGHHIIJJ KKLMNNKK KKOONNPP KKQQRRSS NNKKTUTT VVWWGGXX YYNNZA2QQ B2C2NNKKKK D2D2E2F2KKNN YYG2G2YYYYHeark how the Mower Damon Sung | A |
With love of Juliana stung | A |
While ev'ry thing did seem to paint | B |
The Scene more fit for his complaint | B |
Like her fair Eyes the day was fair | C |
But scorching like his am'rous Care | C |
Sharp like his Sythe his Sorrow was | D |
And wither'd like his Hopes the Grass | E |
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Oh what unusual Heats are here | F |
Which thus our Sun burn'd Meadows sear | G |
The Grass hopper its pipe gives ore | H |
And hamstring'd Frogs can dance no more | H |
But in the brook the green Frog wades | I |
And Grass hoppers seek out the shades | I |
Only the Snake that kept within | J |
Now glitters in its second skin | J |
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This heat the Sun could never raise | K |
Nor Dog star so inflame's the dayes | K |
It from an higher Beauty grow'th | L |
Which burns the Fields and Mower both | M |
Which made the Dog and makes the Sun | N |
Hotter then his own Phaeton | N |
Not July causeth these Extremes | K |
But Juliana's scorching beams | K |
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Tell me where I may pass the Fires | K |
Of the hot day or hot desires | K |
To what cool Cave shall I descend | O |
Or to what gelid Fountain bend | O |
Alas I look for Ease in vain | N |
When Remedies themselves complain | N |
No moisture but my Tears do rest | P |
Nor Cold but in her Icy Breast | P |
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How long wilt Thou fair Shepheardess | K |
Esteem me and my Presents less | K |
To Thee the harmless Snake I bring | Q |
Disarmed of its teeth and sting | Q |
To Thee Chameleons changing hue | R |
And Oak leaves tipt with hony due | R |
Yet Thou ungrateful hast not sought | S |
Nor what they are nor who them brought | S |
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I am the Mower Damon known | N |
Through all the Meadows I have mown | N |
On me the Morn her dew distills | K |
Before her darling Daffadils | K |
And if at Noon my toil me heat | T |
The Sun himself licks off my Sweat | U |
While going home the Ev'ning sweet | T |
In cowslip water bathes my feet | T |
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What though the piping Shepherd stock | V |
The plains with an unnum'red Flock | V |
This Sithe of mine discovers wide | W |
More ground then all his Sheep do hide | W |
With this the golden fleece I shear | G |
Of all these Closes ev'ry Year | G |
And though in Wooll more poor then they | X |
Yet am I richer far in Hay | X |
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Nor am I so deform'd to sight | Y |
If in my Sithe I looked right | Y |
In which I see my Picture done | N |
As in a crescent Moon the Sun | N |
The deathless Fairyes take me oft | Z |
To lead them in their Danses soft | A2 |
And when I tune my self to sing | Q |
About me they contract their Ring | Q |
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How happy might I still have mow'd | B2 |
Had not Love here his Thistles sow'd | C2 |
But now I all the day complain | N |
Joyning my Labour to my Pain | N |
And with my Sythe cut down the Grass | K |
Yet still my Grief is where it was | K |
But when the Iron blunter grows | K |
Sighing I whet my Sythe and Woes | K |
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While thus he threw his Elbow round | D2 |
Depopulating all the Ground | D2 |
And with his whistling Sythe does cut | E2 |
Each stroke between the Earth and Root | F2 |
The edged Stele by careless chance | K |
Did into his own Ankle glance | K |
And there among the Grass fell down | N |
By his own Sythe the Mower mown | N |
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Alas said He these hurts are slight | Y |
To those that dye by Loves despight | Y |
With Shepherds purse and Clowns all heal | G2 |
The Blood I stanch and Wound I seal | G2 |
Only for him no Cure is found | Y |
Whom Julianas Eyes do wound | Y |
'Tis death alone that this must do | Y |
For Death thou art a Mower too | Y |
Andrew Marvell
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