The Story Of PhÅ?bus And Daphne, Applied Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHHAAIIJJ| Thyrsis a youth of the inspired train | A |
| Fair Sacharissa lov'd but lov'd in vain | A |
| Like Ph bus sung the no less amorous boy | B |
| Like Daphne she as lovely and as coy | B |
| With numbers he the flying nymph pursues | C |
| With numbers such as Ph bus' self might use | D |
| Such is the chase when Love and Fancy leads | E |
| O'er craggy mountains and through flow'ry meads | E |
| Invok'd to testify the lover's care | F |
| Or form some image of his cruel fair | F |
| Urg'd with his fury like a wounded deer | G |
| O'er these he fled and now approaching near | G |
| Had reach'd the nymph with his harmonious lay | H |
| Whom all his charms could not incline to stay | H |
| Yet what he sung in his immortal strain | A |
| Though unsuccessful was not sung in vain | A |
| All but the nymph that should redress his wrong | I |
| Attend his passion and approve his song | I |
| Like Ph bus thus acquiring unsought praise | J |
| He catch'd at love and fill'd his arm with bays | J |
Edmund Waller
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