The Shepheardes Calender: November Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCDDADA ACECEECECCDCDDCDC ECFGHFIFIJEJEEAEAAAA AAEAE AEAEAAFKFFEEDFD ECECCEEDCD CLCCLDDDCD EMEMMEEDMD AFAFALLDAD DEDEEFFDED NFNFFMMDFD CDCDDAADDD EOEOOPPDOD DFDFFEEDFD OEOEEEEDED EDEDDEEDDD DEDEEDDDED MEMEEM| November gloga vndecima Thenot Colin | A |
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| Thenot | B |
| Colin my deare when shall it please thee sing | C |
| As thou were wont songs of some iouisaunce | D |
| Thy Muse to long slombreth in sorrowing | C |
| Lulled a sleepe through loues misgouernaunce | D |
| Now somewhat sing whose endles souenaunce | D |
| Emong the shepeheards swaines may aye remaine | A |
| Whether thee list the loued lasse aduaunce | D |
| Or honor Pan with hymnes of higher vaine | A |
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| Colin | A |
| Thenot now nis the time of merimake | C |
| Nor Pan to herye nor with loue to playe | E |
| Sike myrth in May is meetest for to make | C |
| Or summer shade vnder the cocked haye | E |
| But nowe sadde Winter welked hath the day | E |
| And Phoebus weary of his yerely tas ke | C |
| Ystabled hath his steedes in lowlye laye | E |
| And taken vp his ynne in Fishes has ke | C |
| Thilke sollein season sadder plight doth aske | C |
| And loatheth sike delightes as thou doest prayse | D |
| The mornefull Muse in myrth now list ne mas ke | C |
| As shee was wont in yougth and sommer dayes | D |
| But if thou algate lust light virelayes | D |
| And looser songs of loue to vnderfong | C |
| Who but thy selfe deserues sike Poetes prayse | D |
| Relieue thy Oaten pypes that sleepen long | C |
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| Thenot | E |
| The Nightingale is souereigne of song | C |
| Before him sits the Titmose silent bee | F |
| And I vnfitte to thrust in s kilfull thronge | G |
| Should Colin make iudge of my fooleree | H |
| Nay better learne of hem that learned bee | F |
| An han be watered at the Muses well | I |
| The kindlye dewe drops from the higher tree | F |
| And wets the little plants that lowly dwell | I |
| But if sadde winters wrathe and season chill | J |
| Accorde not with thy Muses meriment | E |
| To sadder times thou mayst attune thy quill | J |
| And sing of sorrowe and deathes dreeriment | E |
| For deade is Dido dead alas and drent | E |
| Dido the greate shepehearde his daughter sheene | A |
| The fayrest May she was that euer went | E |
| Her like shee has not left behind I weene | A |
| And if thou wilt bewayle my wofull tene | A |
| I shall thee giue yond Cosset for thy payne | A |
| And if thy rymes as rownd and rufull bene | A |
| As those that did thy Rosalind complayne | A |
| Much greater gyfts for guerdon thou shalt gayne | A |
| Then Kidde of Cosset which I thee bynempt | E |
| Then vp I say thou iolly shepeheard swayne | A |
| Let not my small demaund be so contempt | E |
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| Colin | A |
| Thenot to that I choose thou doest me tempt | E |
| But ah to well I wote my humble vaine | A |
| And howe my rymes bene rugged and vnkempt | E |
| Yet as I conne my conning I will strayne | A |
| Vp then Melpomene thou mounefulst Muse of nyne | A |
| Such cause of mourning neuer hadst afore | F |
| Vp grieslie ghostes and vp my rufull ryme | K |
| Matter of myrth now shalt thou haue no more | F |
| For dead she is that myrth thee made of yore | F |
| Didomy deare alas is dead | E |
| Dead and lyeth wrapt in lead | E |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Let streaming teares be poured out in store | F |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| Shepheards that by your flocks on Kentish downes abyde | E |
| Waile ye this wofull waste of natures warke | C |
| Waile we the wight whose presence was our pryde | E |
| Waile we the wight whose absence is our carke | C |
| The sonne of all the world is dimme and darke | C |
| The earth now lacks her wonted light | E |
| And all we dwell in deadly night | E |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Breake we our pypes that shrild as lowde as Larke | C |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| Why do we longer liue ah why liue we so long | C |
| Whose better dayes death hath shut vp in woe | L |
| The fayrest floure our gyrlond all emong | C |
| Is faded quite and into dust ygoe | C |
| Sing now ye shepheards daughters sing no moe | L |
| The songs that Colin made in her prayse | D |
| But into weeping turne your wanton layes | D |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Now is time to dye Nay time was long ygoe | C |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| Whence is it that the flouret of the field doth fade | E |
| And lyeth buryed long in Winters bale | M |
| Yet soone as spring his mantle hath displayd | E |
| It floureth fresh as it should neuer fayle | M |
| But thing on earth that is of most auaile | M |
| As vertues braunch and beauties budde | E |
| Reliuen not for any good | E |
| O heauie herse | D |
| The braunch once dead the budde eke needes must quaile | M |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| She while she was that was a woful word to sayne | A |
| For beauties prayse and pleasaunce had no pere | F |
| So well she couth the shepherds entertayne | A |
| With cakes and cracknells and such country chere | F |
| Ne would she scorne the simple shepheards swaine | A |
| For she would call hem often heame | L |
| And giue hem curds and clouted Creame | L |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Als Colin cloute she would not once disdayne | A |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| But nowe sike happy cheere is turnd to heauie chaunce | D |
| Such pleasaunce now displast by dolors dint | E |
| All Musick sleepes where death doth leade the daunce | D |
| And shepherds wonted solace is extinct | E |
| The blew in black the greene in gray is tinct | E |
| The gaudie girlonds deck her graue | F |
| The faded flowres her corse embraue | F |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Morne nowe my Muse now morne with teares besprint | E |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| O thou great shepheard Lobbin how great is thy griefe | N |
| Where bene the nosegayes that she dight for thee | F |
| The coloured chaplets wrought with a chiefe | N |
| The knotted rushrings and gilte Rosemaree | F |
| For shee deemed nothing too deere for thee | F |
| Ah they bene all yclad in clay | M |
| One bitter blast blew all away | M |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Thereof nought remaynes but the memoree | F |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| Ay me that dreerie death should strike so mortall stroke | C |
| That can vndoe Dame natures kindly course | D |
| The faded lockes fall from the loftie oke | C |
| The flouds do gaspe for dryed is thyr sourse | D |
| And flouds of teares flowe in theyr stead perforse | D |
| The mantled medowes mourne | A |
| Theyr sondry colours tourne | A |
| O heauie herse | D |
| The heauens doe melt in teares without remorse | D |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| The feeble flocks in field refuse their former foode | E |
| And hang theyr heads as they would learne to weepe | O |
| The beastes in forest wayle as they were woode | E |
| Except the Wolues that chase the wandring sheepe | O |
| Now she is gon that safely did hem keepe | O |
| The Turtle on the bared braunch | P |
| Laments the wound that death did launch | P |
| O heauie herse | D |
| And Philomele her song with teares doth steepe | O |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| The water Nymphs that wont with her to sing and daunce | D |
| And for her girlond Oliue braunches beare | F |
| Now balefull boughes of Cypres doen advaunce | D |
| The Muses that were wont greene bayes to weare | F |
| Now bringen bitter Eldre braunches seare | F |
| The fatall sisters eke repent | E |
| Her vitall threde so soone was spent | E |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Mourne now my Muse now mourne with heauie cheare | F |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| O trustlesse state of earthly things and slipper hope | O |
| Of mortal men that swincke and sweate for nought | E |
| And shooting wide doe misse the marked scope | O |
| Now haue I learnd a lesson derely bought | E |
| That nys on earth assuraunce to be sought | E |
| For what might be in earthlie mould | E |
| That did her buried body hould | E |
| O heauie herse | D |
| Yet saw I on the beare when it was brought | E |
| O carefull verse | D |
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| But maugre death and dreaded sisters deadly spight | E |
| And gates of hel and fyrie furies forse | D |
| She hath the bonds broke of eternall night | E |
| Her soule vnbodied of the burdenous corpse | D |
| Why then weepes Lobbin so without remorse | D |
| O Lobb thy losse no longer lament | E |
| Didonis dead but into heauen hent | E |
| O happye herse | D |
| Cease now my Muse now cease thy sorrowes sourse | D |
| O ioyfull verse | D |
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| Why wayle we then why weary we the Gods with playnts | D |
| As if some euill were to her betight | E |
| She raignes a goddesse now emong the saintes | D |
| That whilome was the saynt of shepheards light | E |
| And is enstalled nowe in heauens hight | E |
| I see thee blessed soule I see | D |
| Walke in Elisian fieldes so free | D |
| O happy herse | D |
| Might I once come to thee O that I might | E |
| O ioyfull verse | D |
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| Vnwise and wretched men to weete whats good or ill | M |
| We deeme of Death as doome of ill desert | E |
| But knewe we fooles what it vs bringes vntil | M |
| Dye would we dayly once it to expert | E |
| No daunger there the shepheard can astert | E |
| Fayre fieldes and pl | M |
Edmund Spenser
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