Soli Cantare Periti Arcades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BABA ACAC DEFE GHGH GGGG AAAA| Oh I would live in a dairy | A |
| And its Colin I would be | A |
| And many a rustic fairy | A |
| Should churn the milk with me | A |
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| Or the fields should be my pleasure | B |
| And my flocks should follow me | A |
| Piping a frolic measure | B |
| For Joan or Marjorie | A |
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| For the town is black and weary | A |
| And I hate the London street | C |
| But the country ways are cheery | A |
| And country lanes are sweet | C |
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| Good luck to you Paris ladies | D |
| Ye are over fine and nice | E |
| I know where the country maid is | F |
| Who needs not asking twice | E |
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| Ye are brave in your silks and satins | G |
| As ye mince about the Town | H |
| But her feet go free in pattens | G |
| If she wear a russet gown | H |
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| If she be not queen nor goddess | G |
| She shall milk my brown eyed herds | G |
| And the breasts beneath her bodice | G |
| Are whiter than her curds | G |
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| So I will live in a dairy | A |
| And its Colin I will be | A |
| And it's Joan that I will marry | A |
| Or haply Marjorie | A |
Ernest Dowson
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