A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDDEEFF GGHHII G GJJ KKHHHHLLGGMMNN H HHHHOO H H H HPQRSGG TTKKGG HHUUVV DDBB UUGGS WWXXHHYYHH| A | |
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| Silvia Pretty Nymph within this Shade | B |
| Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid | B |
| Whilst the World dissolves in Heat | C |
| Take this cool and flow'ry Seat | C |
| And with pleasing Talk awhile | D |
| Let us two the Time beguile | D |
| Tho' thou here no Shepherd see | E |
| To encline his humble Knee | E |
| Or with melancholy Lays | F |
| Sing thy dangerous Beauty's Praise | F |
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| Dorinda Nymph with thee I here wou'd stay | G |
| But have heard that on this Day | G |
| Near those Beeches scarce in view | H |
| All the Swains some Mirth pursue | H |
| To whose meeting now I haste | I |
| Solitude do's Life but waste | I |
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| Silvia Prithee but a Moment stay | G |
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| Dorinda No my Chaplet wou'd decay | G |
| Ev'ry drooping Flow'r wou'd mourn | J |
| And wrong the Face they shou'd adorn | J |
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| Silvia I can tell thee tho' so Fair | K |
| And dress'd with all that rural Care | K |
| Most of the admiring Swains | H |
| Will be absent from the Plains | H |
| Gay Sylvander in the Dance | H |
| Meeting with a shrew'd Mischance | H |
| To his Cabin's now confin'd | L |
| By Mopsus who the Strain did bind | L |
| Damon through the Woods do's stray | G |
| Where his Kids have lost their way | G |
| Young Narcissus iv'ry Brow | M |
| Rac'd by a malicious Bough | M |
| Keeps the girlish Boy from sight | N |
| Till Time shall do his Beauty right | N |
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| Dorinda Where's Alexis | H |
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| Silvia He alas | H |
| Lies extended on the Grass | H |
| Tears his Garland raves despairs | H |
| Mirth and Harmony forswears | H |
| Since he was this Morning shown | O |
| That Delia must not be his Own | O |
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| Dorinda Foolish Swain such Love to place | H |
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| Silvia On any but Dorinda's Face | H |
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| Dorinda Hasty Nymph I said not so | H |
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| Silvia No but I thy Meaning know | H |
| Ev'ry Shepherd thou wou'd'st have | P |
| Not thy Lover but thy Slave | Q |
| To encrease thy captive Train | R |
| Never to be lov'd again | S |
| But since all are now away | G |
| Prithee but a Moment stay | G |
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| Dorinda No the Strangers from the Vale | T |
| Sure will not this Meeting fail | T |
| Graceful one the other Fair | K |
| He too with the pensive Air | K |
| Told me ere he came this way | G |
| He was wont to look more Gay | G |
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| Silvia See how Pride thy Heart inclines | H |
| To think for Thee that Shepherd pines | H |
| When those Words that reach'd thy Ear | U |
| Chloe was design'd to hear | U |
| Chloe who did near thee stand | V |
| And his more speaking Looks command | V |
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| Dorinda Now thy Envy makes me smile | D |
| That indeed were worth his while | D |
| Chloe next thyself decay'd | B |
| And no more a courted Maid | B |
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| Silvia Next myself Young Nymph forbear | U |
| Still the Swains allow me Fair | U |
| Tho' not what I was that Day | G |
| When Colon bore the Prize away | G |
| When | S |
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| Dorinda Oh hold that Tale will last | W |
| Till all the Evening Sports are past | W |
| Till no Streak of Light is seen | X |
| Nor Footstep prints the flow'ry Green | X |
| What thou wert I need not know | H |
| What I am must haste to show | H |
| Only this I now discern | Y |
| From the things thou'd'st have me learn | Y |
| That Woman kind's peculiar Joys | H |
| From past or present Beauties rise | H |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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