From Theocritus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFBBBADGHICJKBLB F| IDYLL VII | A |
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| Scarce midway were we yet nor yet descried | B |
| The stone that hides what once was Brasidas | C |
| When there drew near a wayfarer from Crete | B |
| Young Lycidas the Muses' votary | D |
| The horned herd was his care a glance might tell | E |
| So much for every inch a herdsman he | F |
| Slung o'er his shoulder was a ruddy hide | B |
| Torn from a he goat shaggy tangle haired | B |
| That reeked of rennet yet a broad belt clasped | B |
| A patched cloak round his breast and for a staff | A |
| A gnarled wild olive bough his right hand bore | D |
| Soon with a quiet smile he spoke his eye | G |
| Twinkled and laughter sat upon his lip | H |
| And whither ploddest thou thy weary way | I |
| Beneath the noontide sun Simichides | C |
| For now the lizard sleeps upon the wall | J |
| The crested lark hath closed his wandering wing | K |
| Speed'st thou a bidd'n guest to some reveller's board | B |
| Or townwards to the treading of the grape | L |
| For lo recoiling from thy hurrying feet | B |
| The pavement stones ring out right merrily | F |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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