The Mower's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFEECC EEGGCC HIJKCCMy mind was once the true survey | A |
Of all these meadows fresh and gay | A |
And in the greenness of the grass | B |
Did see its hopes as in a glass | B |
When Juliana came and she | C |
What I do to the grass does to my thoughts and me | C |
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But these while I with sorrow pine | D |
Grew more luxuriant still and fine | D |
That not one blade of grass you spy'd | E |
But had a flower on either side | E |
When Juliana came and she | C |
What I do to the grass does to me thoughts and me | C |
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Unthankful meadows could you so | F |
A fellowship so true forgo | F |
And in your gaudy May games meet | E |
While I lay trodden under feet | E |
When Juliana came and she | C |
What I do to the grass does to my thoughts and me | C |
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But what you in compassion ought | E |
Shall now by my revenge be wrought | E |
And flow'rs and grass and I and all | G |
Will in one common ruin fall | G |
For Juliana comes and she | C |
What I do to the grass does to my thoughts and me | C |
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And thus ye meadows which have been | H |
Companions of my thoughts more green | I |
Shall now the heraldry become | J |
With which I shall adorn my tomb | K |
For Juliana comes and she | C |
What I do to the grass does to my thoughts and me | C |
Andrew Marvell
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