The Shepheardes Calender: March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFFD AGGHFFH BFFFEEFFFCIIC AFFJ BKKJ AFFDEED BHHAEEA AEELDDLDDGCCGFFA HFFA AEHMFFMFFMNNMMMFMMFA AEMMEAAFFFFFFFEHFGGF EEF HFFAEEAFFFFFFCCF EGO EEE| March gloga Tertia Willye Thomalin | A |
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| Willye | B |
| THomalin why sytten we soe | C |
| As weren ouerwent with woe | D |
| Vpon so fayre a morow | E |
| The ioyous time now nighest fast | F |
| That shall alegge this bitter blast | F |
| And slake the winters sorowe | D |
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| Thomalin | A |
| Sicker Willye thou warnest well | G |
| For Winters wrath beginnes to quell | G |
| And pleasant spring appeareth | H |
| The grasse now ginnes to be refresht | F |
| The Swallow peepes out of her nest | F |
| And clowdie Welkin cleareth | H |
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| Willye | B |
| Seest not thilke same Hawthorne studde | F |
| How bragly it beginnes to budde | F |
| And vtter his tender head | F |
| Flora now calleth forth eche flower | E |
| And bids make ready Maias bowre | E |
| That newe is vpryst from bedde | F |
| Tho shall we sporten in delight | F |
| And learne with Lettice to wexe light | F |
| That scornefully lookes askaunce | C |
| Tho will we little Loue awake | I |
| That nowe sleepeth in Lethe lake | I |
| And pray him leaden our daunce | C |
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| Thomalin | A |
| Willye I wene thou bee assott | F |
| For lustie Loue still sleepeth not | F |
| But is abroad at his game | J |
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| Willye | B |
| How kenst thou that he is awoke | K |
| Or hast thy selfe his slomber broke | K |
| Or made preuie to the same | J |
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| Thomalin | A |
| No but happely I hym spyde | F |
| Where in a bush he did him hide | F |
| With winges of purple and blewe | D |
| And were not that my sheepe would stray | E |
| The preuie marks I would bewray | E |
| Whereby by chaunce I him knewe | D |
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| Willye | B |
| Thomalin haue no care for thy | H |
| My selfe will haue a double eye | H |
| Ylike to my flocke and thine | A |
| For als at home I haue a syre | E |
| A stepdame eke as whott as fyre | E |
| That dewly adayes counts mine | A |
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| Thomalin | A |
| Nay but thy seeing will not serue | E |
| My sheepe for that may chaunce to swerue | E |
| And fall into some mischiefe | L |
| For sithens is but the third morowe | D |
| That I chaunst to fall a sleepe with sorowe | D |
| And waked againe with griefe | L |
| The while thilke same vnhappye Ewe | D |
| Whose clouted legge her hurt doth shewe | D |
| Fell headlong into a dell | G |
| And there vnioynted both her bones | C |
| Mought her necke bene ioynted attones | C |
| She shoulde haue neede no more spell | G |
| Thelf was so wanton and so wood | F |
| But now I trowe can better good | F |
| She mought ne gang on the greene | A |
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| Willye | H |
| Let be as may be that is past | F |
| That is to come let be forecast | F |
| Now tell vs what thou hast seene | A |
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| Thomalin | A |
| It was vpon a holiday | E |
| When shepheardes groomes han leaue to playe | H |
| I cast to goe a shooting | M |
| Long wandring vp and downe the land | F |
| With bowe and bolts in either hand | F |
| For birds in bushes tooting | M |
| At length within an Yuie todde | F |
| There shrouded was the little God | F |
| I heard a busie bustling | M |
| I bent my bow against the bush | N |
| Listening if any thing did rushe | N |
| But then heard no more rustling | M |
| Tho peeping close into the thicke | M |
| Might see the mouing of some quicke | M |
| Whose shape appeared not | F |
| But were it faerie feend or snake | M |
| My courage earnd it to awake | M |
| And manfully thereat shotte | F |
| With that sprong forth a naked swayne | A |
| With spotted winges like Peacocks trayne | A |
| And laughing lope to a tree | E |
| His gylden quiuer at his backe | M |
| And silver bowe which was but slacke | M |
| Which lightly he bent at me | E |
| That seeing I leuelde againe | A |
| And shott at him with might and maine | A |
| As thicke as it had hayled | F |
| So long I shott that al was spent | F |
| Tho pumie stones I hastly hent | F |
| And threwe but nought availed | F |
| He was so wimble and so wight | F |
| From bough to bough he lepped light | F |
| And oft the pumies latched | F |
| Therewith affrayd I ranne away | E |
| But he that earst seemd but to playe | H |
| A shaft in earnest snatched | F |
| And hit me running in the heele | G |
| For then I little smart did feele | G |
| But soone it sore encreased | F |
| And now it ranckleth more and more | E |
| And inwardly it festreth sore | E |
| Ne wote I how to cease it | F |
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| Willye | H |
| Thomalin I pittie thy plight | F |
| Perdie with loue thou diddest fight | F |
| I know him by a token | A |
| For once I heard my father say | E |
| How he him caught vpon a day | E |
| Whereof he wilbe wroken | A |
| Entangled in a fowling net | F |
| Which he for carrion Crowes had set | F |
| That in our Peeretree haunted | F |
| Tho sayd he was a winged lad | F |
| But bowe and shafts as then none had | F |
| Els had he sore be daunted | F |
| But see the Welkin thicks apace | C |
| And stouping Phebus steepes his face | C |
| Yts time to hast vs homeward | F |
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| Willyes Embleme | E |
| To be wise and eke to loue | G |
| Is graunted scarce to God aboue | O |
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| Thomalins Embleme | E |
| Of Hony and of Gaule in loue there is store | E |
| The Honye is much but the Gaule is more | E |
Edmund Spenser
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