An Excuse For Lalage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF| To bear the yoke not yet your love's submissive neck is bent | A |
| To share a husband's toil or grasp his amorous intent | A |
| Over the fields in cooling streams the heifer longs to go | B |
| Now with the calves disporting where the pussy willows grow | B |
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| Give up your thirst for unripe grapes and trust me you shall learn | C |
| How quickly in the autumn time to purple they will turn | C |
| Soon she will follow you for age steals swiftly on the maid | D |
| And all the precious years that you have lost she will have paid | D |
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| Soon she will seek a lord beloved as Pholoe the coy | E |
| Or Chloris or young Gyges that deceitful girlish boy | E |
| Whom if you placed among the girls and loosed his flowing locks | F |
| The wondering guests could not decide which one decorum shocks | F |
Eugene Field
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