The Shepheardes Calender: August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDAAABAAAAAEEBFAF AAGGBHAHAAAABAHAHIIG JGJJJ AKHKHAABHAAHABAAAJLA JL MBHFBFBFJFJFHAHAHAHA ANANBGBGAKAKGHGHHAHA AHAHAAAAHOHOAHAHJJJJ HPHPNLNLMHHF HJAJA HHH AAJAJ AKK HJJ AAGAG AAA FFAFA AHHOAGANAAOAGANNAOAG AANAOAGGANAOAAGANJAugust gloga Octaua Willye Perigot Cuddie | A |
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Willye | B |
Ell me Perigot what shalbe the game | C |
Wherefore with myne thou dare thy musick matche | D |
Or bene thy Bagpypes renne farre out of frame | C |
Or hath the Crampe thy ioynts benomd with ache | D |
Perigot | A |
Ah Willye when the hart is ill assayde | A |
How can Bagpipe or ioynts be well apayd | A |
Willye | B |
What the foule euill hath thee so bestadde | A |
Whilom thou was peregall to the best | A |
And wont to make the iolly shepeheards gladde | A |
With pyping and dauncing didst passe the rest | A |
Perigot | A |
Ah Willye now I haue learnd a newe daunce | E |
My old musick mard by a newe mischaunce | E |
Willye | B |
Mischiefe mought to that newe mischaunce befall | F |
That hath so raft vs of our meriment | A |
But reede me what payne doth thee so appall | F |
Or louest thou or bene thy younglings miswent | A |
Perigot | A |
Loue hath misled both my younglings and mee | G |
I pyne for payne and they my payne to see | G |
Willye | B |
Perdie and wellawaye ill may they thriue | H |
Neuer knewe I louers sheepe in good plight | A |
But and if rymes with me thou dare striue | H |
Such fond fantsies shall soone be put to flight | A |
Perigot | A |
That shall I doe though mochell worse I fared | A |
Neuer shall be sayde that Perigot was dared | A |
Willye | B |
Then loe Perigot the Pledge which I plight | A |
A mazer ywrought of the Maple warre | H |
Wherein is enchased many a fayre sight | A |
Of Beres and Tygres that maken fiers warre | H |
And ouer them spred a goodly wild vine | I |
Entrailed with a wanton Yuie twine | I |
Thereby is a Lambe in the Wolues iawes | G |
But see how fast renneth the shepheard swayne | J |
To saue the innocent from the beastes pawes | G |
And here with his shepehooke hath him slayne | J |
Tell me such a cup hast thou euer sene | J |
Well mought it beseme any haruest Queene | J |
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Perigot | A |
Thereto will I pawne yon spotted Lambe | K |
Of all my flocke there nis sike another | H |
For I brought him vp without the Dambe | K |
But Colin Clout rafte me of his brother | H |
That he purchast of me in the playne field | A |
Sore against my will was I forst to yield | A |
Willye | B |
Sicker make like account of his brother | H |
But who shall iudge the wager wonne or lost | A |
Perigot | A |
That shall yonder heardgrome and none other | H |
Which ouer the pousse hetherward doth post | A |
Willye | B |
But for the Sunnebeame so sore doth vs beate | A |
Were not better to shunne the scortching heate | A |
Perigot | A |
Well agreed Willy then sitte thee downe swayne | J |
Sike a song neuer heardest thou but Colin sing | L |
Cuddie | A |
Gynne when ye lyst ye iolly shepheards twayne | J |
Sike a iudge as Cuddie were for a king | L |
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Perigot T fell vpon a holly eue | M |
Willye hey ho hollidaye | B |
Per When holly fathers wont to shrieue | H |
Wil now gynneth this roundelay | F |
Per Sitting vpon a hill so hye | B |
Wil hey ho the high hyll | F |
Per The while my flocke did feede thereby | B |
Wil the while the shepheard selfe did spill | F |
Per I saw the bouncing Bellibone | J |
Wil Hey ho Bonibell | F |
Per Tripping ouer the dale alone | J |
Wil she can trippe it very well | F |
Per Well decked in a frocke of gray | H |
Wil hey ho gray is greete | A |
Per And in a Kirtle of greene saye | H |
Wil the greene is for maydens meete | A |
Per A chapelet on her head she wore | H |
Wil hey ho chapelet | A |
Per Of sweete Violets therein was store | H |
Wil she sweeter than the Violet | A |
Per My sheepe did leaue theyr wonted foode | A |
Wil hey ho seely sheepe | N |
Per And gazd on her as they were wood | A |
Wil woode as he that did them keepe | N |
Per As the bonilasse passed bye | B |
Wil hey ho bonilasse | G |
Per She roude at me with glauncing eye | B |
Wil as cleare as the christall glasse | G |
Per All as the Sunnye beame so bright | A |
Wil hey ho the Sunne beame | K |
Per Glaunceth from Phoebus face forthright | A |
Wil so loue into thy hart did streame | K |
Per Or as the thonder cleaues the cloudes | G |
Wil hey ho the Thonder | H |
Per Wherein the lightsome leuin shroudes | G |
Wil so cleaues thy soule a sonder | H |
Per Or as Dame Cynthias siluer raye | H |
Wil hey ho the Moonelight | A |
Per Vpon the glittering waue doth playe | H |
Wil such play is a pitteous plight | A |
Per The glaunce into my heart did glide | A |
Wil hey ho the glyder | H |
Per Therewith my soule was sharply gryde | A |
Wil uch wounds soone wexen wider | H |
Per Hating to raunch the arrow out | A |
Wil hey ho Perigot | A |
Per I left the head in my hart roote | A |
Wil it was a desperate shot | A |
Per There it ranckleth ay more and more | H |
Wil hey ho the arrowe | O |
Per Ne can I find salue for my sore | H |
Wil loue is a curelesse sorrowe | O |
Per And though my bale with death I bought | A |
Wil hey ho the heauie cheere | H |
Per Yet should thilke lasse not from my thought | A |
Wil so you may buye gold to deare | H |
Per But whether in paynefull loue I pyne | J |
Wil hey ho pinching payne | J |
Per Or thriue in welth she shalbe mine | J |
Wil but if thou can her obteine | J |
Per And if for gracelesse greefe I dye | H |
Wil hey ho gracelesse griefe | P |
Per Witnesse shee slewe me with her eye | H |
Wil let thy follye be the priefe | P |
Per And you that sawe it simple shepe | N |
Wil hey ho the fayre flocke | L |
Per For priefe thereof my death shall weepe | N |
Wil and mone with many a mocke | L |
Per So learnd I loue on a hollye eue | M |
Wil hey ho hollidaye | H |
Per That euer since my hart did greue | H |
Wil now endeth our roundelay | F |
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Cuddye | H |
Sicker sike a roundle neuer heard I none | J |
Little lacketh Perigot of the best | A |
And Willye is not greatly ouergone | J |
So weren his vndersongs well addrest | A |
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Willye | H |
Herdgrome I feare me thou haue a squint eye | H |
Areede vprightly who has the victorye | H |
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Cuddie | A |
Fayth of my soule I deeme ech haue gayned | A |
For thy let the Lambe be Willye his owne | J |
And for Perigot so well hath hym payned | A |
To him be the wroughten mazer alone | J |
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Perigot | A |
Perigot is well pleased with the doome | K |
Ne can Willye wite the witelesse herdgroome | K |
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Willye | H |
Never dempt more right of beautye I weene | J |
The shepheard of Ida that iudged beauties Queene | J |
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Cuddie | A |
But tell me shepheards should it not yshend | A |
Your roundels fresh to heare a dolefull verse | G |
Of Rosalend who knowes not Rosalend | A |
That Colin made ylke can I you rehearse | G |
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Perigot | A |
Now say it Cuddie as thou art a ladde | A |
With mery thing its good to medle sadde | A |
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Willy | F |
Fayth of my soule thou shalt ycrouned be | F |
In Colins stede if thou this song areede | A |
For neuer thing on earth so pleaseth me | F |
As him to heare or matter of his deede | A |
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Cuddie | A |
Then listneth ech vnto my heauy laye | H |
And tune your pypes as ruthful as ye may | H |
E wastefull woodes beare witnesse of my woe | O |
Wherein my plaints did oftentimes resound | A |
Ye carelesse byrds are priuie to my cryes | G |
Which in your songs were wont to make a part | A |
Thou pleasaunt spring hast luld me oft a sleepe | N |
Whose streames my trickling teares did ofte augment | A |
Resort of people doth my greefs augment | A |
The walled townes do worke my greater woe | O |
The forest wide is fitter to resound | A |
The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes | G |
I hate the house since thence my loue did part | A |
Whose waylefull want debarres myne eyes from sleepe | N |
Let stremes of teares supply the place of sleepe | N |
Let all that sweete is voyd and all that may augment | A |
My doole drawe neare More meete to wayle my woe | O |
Bene the wild woddes my sorrowes to resound | A |
Then bedde or bowre both which I fill with cryes | G |
When I them see so waist and fynd no part | A |
Of pleasure past Here will I dwell apart | A |
In gastful groue therefore till my last sleepe | N |
Doe close mine eyes so shall I not augment | A |
With sight of such a chaunge my recklesse woe | O |
Helpe me ye banefull byrds whose shrieking sound | A |
Ys signe of dreery death my deadly cryes | G |
Most ruthfully to tune And as my cryes | G |
Which of my woe cannot bewray least part | A |
You heare all night when nature craueth sleepe | N |
Increase so let your yrksome yells augment | A |
Thus all the night in plaints the daye in woe | O |
I vowed haue to wayst till safe and sound | A |
She home returne whose voyces siluer sound | A |
To cheerefull songs can chaunge my cherelesse cryes | G |
Hence with the Nightingale will I take part | A |
That blessed byrd that spends her time of sleepe | N |
In songs and plaintiue pleas the more taugmen | J |
Edmund Spenser
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