The Shepheardes Calender: Januarie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BABAAA CDCDAA EAEADF AAAAAA AAAAEE AFAFEE FAFAAA AFAFEE FGFHEE EAEAEE DEFECC IAIAJJ DADAKK

Januarie gloga Prime Colin ClouteA
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A Shepeheards boye no better doe him callB
when Winters wastful spight was almost spentA
All in a sunneshine day as did befallB
Led forth his flock that had been long ypentA
So faynt they woxe and feeble in the foldeA
That now vnnethes their feete could them vpholdA
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All as the Sheepe such was the shepeheards lookeC
For pale and wanne he was alas the whileD
May seeme he lovd or els some care he tookeC
Well couth he tune his pipe and frame his stileD
Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he leddeA
And thus him playnd the while his shepe there feddeA
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Ye gods of loue that pitie louers payneE
if any gods the paine of louers pitieA
Looke from aboue where you in ioyes remaineE
And bowe your eares vnto my doleful dittieA
And Pan thou shepheards God that once didst loueD
Pitie the paines that thou thy selfe didst proueF
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Thou barrein ground whome winters wrath hath wastedA
Art made a myrrhour to behold my plightA
Whilome thy fresh spring flowrd and after hastedA
Thy sommer prowde with Daffadillies dightA
And now is come thy wynters stormy stateA
Thy mantle mard wherein thou mas kedst lateA
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Such rage as winters reigneth in my heartA
My life bloud friesing wtih vnkindly coldA
Such stormy stoures do breede my balefull smarteA
As if my yeare were wast and woxen oldA
And yet alas but now my spring begonneE
And yet alas yt is already donneE
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You naked trees whose shady leaves are lostA
Wherein the byrds were wont to build their bowreF
And now are clothd with mosse and hoary frostA
Instede of bloosmes wherwith your buds did flowreF
I see your teares that from your boughes doe raineE
Whose drops in drery ysicles remaineE
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All so my lustfull leafe is drye and sereF
My timely buds with wayling all are wastedA
The blossome which my braunch of youth did beareF
With breathed sighes is blowne away blastedA
And from mine eyes the drizling teares descendA
As on your boughes the ysicles dependA
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Thou feeble flocke whose fleece is rough and rentA
Whose knees are weak through fast and evill fareF
Mayst witnesse well by thy ill gouernementA
Thy maysters mind is ouercome with careF
Thou weak I wanne thou leabe I quite forlorneE
With mourning pyne I you with pyning mourneE
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A thousand sithes I curse that carefull howerF
Wherein I longd the neighbour towne to seeG
And eke tenne thousand sithes I blesse the stoureF
Wherein I sawe so fayre a sight as sheeH
Yet all for naught snch such sight hath bred my baneE
Ah God that loue should breede both ioy and payneE
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It is not Hobbinol wherefore I plaineE
Albee my loue he seeke with dayly suitA
His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaineE
His kiddes his cracknelles and his early fruitA
Ah foolish Hobbinol thy gyfts bene vayneE
Colin them gives to Rosalind againeE
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I loue thilke lasse alas why doe I loueD
And am forlorne alas why am I lorneE
Shee deignes not my good will but doth reproueF
And of my rurall musick holdeth scorneE
Shepheards deuise she hateth as the snakeC
And laughes the songes that Colin Clout doth makeC
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Wherefore my pype albee rude Pan thou pleaseI
Yet for thou pleasest not where most I wouldA
And thou vnlucky Muse that wontst to easeI
My musing mynd yet canst not when thou shouldA
Both pype and Muse shall sore the while abyeJ
So broke his oaten pype and downe dyd lyeJ
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By that the welked Phoebus gan availeD
His weary waine and nowe the frosty NightA
Her mantle black through heauen gan overhaileD
Which seene the pensife boy halfe in despightA
Arose and homeward drove his sonned sheepeK
Whose hanging heads did seeme his carefull case to weepeK

Edmund Spenser



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