Corydon's Doleful Knell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDBD DDEDC DEDEC DEDEC DEFEC FDGDC FHFHC FDDDC IJI C IDIDCDDD| My Phillida adieu love | A |
| For evermore farewel | B |
| Ay me I've lost my true love | A |
| And thus I ring her knell | B |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
| My Phillida is dead | D |
| I'll stick a branch of willow | B |
| At my fair Phillis' head | D |
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| For my fair Phillida | D |
| Our bridal bed was made | D |
| But 'stead of silkes so gay | E |
| She in her shroud is laid | D |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| Her corpse shall be attended | D |
| By maides in fair array | E |
| Till the obsequies are ended | D |
| And she is wrapt in clay | E |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| Her herse it shall be carried | D |
| By youths that do excell | E |
| And when that she is buried | D |
| I thus will ring her knell | E |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| A garland shall be framed | D |
| By art and natures skill | E |
| Of sundry colour'd flowers | F |
| In token of good will | E |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| And sundry colour'd ribbands | F |
| On it I will bestow | D |
| But chiefly black and yellowe | G |
| With her to grave shall go | D |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| I'll decke her tomb with flowers | F |
| The rarest ever seen | H |
| And with my tears as showers | F |
| I'll keepe them fresh and green | H |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| Instead of fairest colours | F |
| Set forth with curious art | D |
| Her image shall be painted | D |
| On my distressed heart | D |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| And thereon shall be graven | I |
| Her epitaph so faire | J |
| 'Here lies the loveliest maiden | I |
| That e'er gave shepheard care ' | - |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
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| In sable will I mourne | I |
| Blacke shall be all my weede | D |
| Ay me I am forlorne | I |
| Now Phillida is dead | D |
| Ding dong ding dong ding dong | C |
| My Phillida is dead | D |
| I'll stick a branch of willow | D |
| At my fair Phillis' head | D |
Anonymous Olde English
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