A Ditty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDBBE FGFGGGHEG FIFFGGJJG EEEEBBFFB BFBFFFFFF EGEJKLGGM| In praise of Eliza Queen of the Shepherds | A |
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| See where she sits upon the grassie greene | B |
| O seemely sight | C |
| Yclad in Scarlot like a mayden Queene | B |
| And ermines white | C |
| Upon her head a Cremosin coronet | D |
| With Damaske roses and Daffadillies set | D |
| Bay leaves betweene | B |
| And primroses greene | B |
| Embellish the sweete Violet | E |
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| Tell me have ye seene her angelick face | F |
| Like Phoebe fayre | G |
| Her heavenly haveour her princely grace | F |
| Can you well compare | G |
| The Redde rose medled with the White yfere | G |
| In either cheeke depeincten lively chere | G |
| Her modest eye | H |
| Her Majestie | E |
| Where have you seene the like but there | G |
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| I see Calliope speede her to the place | F |
| Where my Goddesse shines | I |
| And after her the other Muses trace | F |
| With their Violines | F |
| Bene they not Bay braunches which they do beare | G |
| All for Elisa in her hand to weare | G |
| So sweetely they play | J |
| And sing all the way | J |
| That it a heaven is to heare | G |
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| Lo how finely the Graces can it foote | E |
| To the Instrument | E |
| They dauncen deffly and singen soote | E |
| In their meriment | E |
| Wants not a fourth Grace to make the daunce even | B |
| Let that rowme to my Lady be yeven | B |
| She shal be a Grace | F |
| To fyll the fourth place | F |
| And reigne with the rest in heaven | B |
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| Bring hether the Pincke and purple Cullambine | B |
| With Gelliflowres | F |
| Bring Coronations and Sops in wine | B |
| Worne of Paramoures | F |
| Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies | F |
| And Cowslips and Kingcups and lov egrave d Lillies | F |
| The pretie Pawnce | F |
| And the Chevisaunce | F |
| Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice | F |
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| Now ryse up Elisa deck egrave d as thou art | E |
| In royall aray | G |
| And now ye daintie Damsells may depart | E |
| Eche one her way | J |
| I feare I have troubled your troupes to longe | K |
| Let dame Elisa thanke you for her song | L |
| And if you come hether | G |
| When Damsines I gether | G |
| I will part them all you among | M |
Edmund Spenser
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