An Invitation To Dafnis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGG HHIIGGAAAAGG JJKKGG LLGGGGAAMMGGNNGG OONNGPMMNNGG QRNNRSGG| When such a day blesst the Arcadian plaine | A |
| Warm without Sun and shady without rain | A |
| Fann'd by an air that scarsly bent the flowers | B |
| Or wav'd the woodbines on the summer bowers | B |
| The Nymphs disorder'd beauty cou'd not fear | C |
| Nor ruffling winds uncurl'd the Shepheards hair | D |
| On the fresh grasse they trod their measures light | E |
| And a long Evening made from noon to night | E |
| Come then my Dafnis from those cares descend | F |
| Which better may the winter season spend | F |
| Come and the pleasures of the feilds survey | G |
| And throo' the groves with your Ardelia stray | G |
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| Reading the softest Poetry refuse | H |
| To veiw the subjects of each rural muse | H |
| Nor lett the busy compasses go round | I |
| When faery Cercles better mark the ground | I |
| Rich Colours on the Vellum cease to lay | G |
| When ev'ry lawne much nobler can display | G |
| When on the daz'ling poppy may be seen | A |
| A glowing red exceeding your carmine | A |
| And for the blew that o're the Sea is borne | A |
| A brighter rises in our standing corn | A |
| Come then my Dafnis and the feilds survey | G |
| And throo' the groves with your Ardelia stray | G |
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| Come and lett Sansons World no more engage | J |
| Altho' he gives a Kingdom in a page | J |
| O're all the Vniverse his lines may goe | K |
| And not a clime like temp'rate brittan show | K |
| Come then my Dafnis and her feilds survey | G |
| And throo' the groves with your Ardelia stray | G |
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| Nor plead that you're immur'd and cannot yield | L |
| That mighty Bastions keep you from the feild | L |
| Think not tho' lodg'd in Mons or in Namur | G |
| You're from my dangerous attacks secure | G |
| No Louis shall his falling Conquests fear | G |
| When by succeeding Courriers he shall hear | G |
| Appollo and the Muses are drawn down | A |
| To storm each fort and take in ev'ry Town | A |
| Vauban the Orphean Lyre to mind shall call | M |
| That drew the stones to the old Theban Wall | M |
| And make no doubt if itt against him play | G |
| They from his works will fly as fast away | G |
| Which to prevent he shall to peace persuade | N |
| Of strong confederate Syllables affraid | N |
| Come then my Dafnis and the fields survey | G |
| And throo' the Groves with your Ardelia stray | G |
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| Come and attend how as we walk along | O |
| Each chearfull bird shall treat us with a song | O |
| Nott such as Fopps compose where witt nor art | N |
| Nor plainer Nature ever bear a part | N |
| The Cristall springs shall murmure as we passe | G |
| But not like Courtiers sinking to disgrace | P |
| Nor shall the louder Rivers in their fall | M |
| Like unpaid Saylers or hoarse Pleaders brawle | M |
| But all shall form a concert to delight | N |
| And all to peace and all to love envite | N |
| Come then my Dafnis and the feilds survey | G |
| And throo' the Groves with your Ardelia stray | G |
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| As Baucis and Philemon spent their lives | Q |
| Of husbands he the happyest she of wives | R |
| When throo' the painted meads their way they sought | N |
| Harmlesse in act and unperplext in thought | N |
| Lett us my Dafnis rural joys persue | R |
| And Courts or Camps not ev'n in fancy view | S |
| So lett us throo' the Groves my Dafnis stray | G |
| And so the pleasures of the feilds survey | G |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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