Poem 17 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDBDBEAFBBFGGHH| Now ceasse ye damsels your delights forepast | A |
| Enough is it that all the day was youres | B |
| Now day is doen and night is nighing fast | A |
| Now bring the Bryde into the brydall boures | B |
| Now night is come now soone her disaray | C |
| And in her bed her lay | D |
| Lay her in lillies and in violets | B |
| And silken courteins ouer her display | D |
| And odourd sheetes and Arras couerlets | B |
| Behold how goodly my faire loue does ly | E |
| In proud humility | A |
| Like vnto Maia when as Ioue her tooke | F |
| In Tempe lying on the flowry gras | B |
| Twixt sleepe and wake after she weary was | B |
| With bathing in the Acidalian brooke | F |
| Now it is night ye damsels may be gon | G |
| And leaue my loue alone | G |
| And leaue likewise your former lay to sing | H |
| The woods no more shal answere nor your echo ring | H |
Edmund Spenser
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