To Phyllis Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK JJLL| Sweet Phyllis I have here a jar of old and precious wine | A |
| The years which mark its coming from the Alban hills are nine | A |
| And in the garden parsley too for wreathing garlands fair | B |
| And ivy in profusion to bind up your shining hair | B |
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| Now smiles the house with silver the altar laurel bound | C |
| Longs with the sacrificial blood of lambs to drip around | C |
| The company is hurrying boys and maidens with the rest | D |
| The flames are flickering as they whirl the dark smoke on their crest | D |
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| Yet you must know the joys to which you have been summoned here | E |
| To keep the Ides of April to the sea born Venus dear | F |
| Ah festal day more sacred than my own fair day of birth | G |
| Since from its dawn my loved M cenas counts his years of earth | G |
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| A rich and wanton girl has caught as suited to her mind | H |
| The Telephus whom you desire a youth not of your kind | H |
| She holds him bound with pleasing chains the fetters of her charms | I |
| Remember how scorched Pha thon ambitious hopes alarms | I |
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| The winged Pegasus the rash Bellerophon has chafed | J |
| To you a grave example for reflection has vouchsafed | J |
| Always to follow what is meet and never try to catch | K |
| That which is not allowed to you an inappropriate match | K |
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| Come now sweet Phyllis of my loves the last and hence the best | J |
| For nevermore shall other girls inflame this manly breast | J |
| Learn loving measures to rehearse as we may stroll along | L |
| And dismal cares shall fly away and vanish at your song | L |
Eugene Field
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