Thyrsis And Amaranth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCDEEDFAAGFGHHIIJ JACKLLK MNMNOOCCPP AAGQQGAAA RRS TTTRRCCAUUUUARRFFVVW WC XXA RRR RR FRF| For Mademoiselle De Sillery | A |
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| I had the Phrygian quit | B |
| Charm'd with Italian wit | B |
| But a divinity | C |
| Would on Parnassus see | C |
| A fable more from me | C |
| Such challenge to refuse | D |
| Without a good excuse | E |
| Is not the way to use | E |
| Divinity or muse | D |
| Especially to one | F |
| Of those who truly are | A |
| By force of being fair | A |
| Made queens of human will | G |
| A thing should not be done | F |
| In all respects so ill | G |
| For be it known to all | H |
| From Sillery the call | H |
| Has come for bird and beast | I |
| And insects to the least | I |
| To clothe their thoughts sublime | J |
| In this my simple rhyme | J |
| In saying Sillery | A |
| All's said that need to be | C |
| Her claim to it so good | K |
| Few fail to give her place | L |
| Above the human race | L |
| How could they if they would | K |
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| Now come we to our end | M |
| As she opines my tales | N |
| Are hard to comprehend | M |
| For even genius fails | N |
| Some things to understand | O |
| So let us take in hand | O |
| To make unnecessary | C |
| For once a commentary | C |
| Come shepherds now and rhyme we afterwards | P |
| The talk between the wolves and fleecy herds | P |
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| To Amaranth the young and fair | A |
| Said Thyrsis once with serious air | A |
| 'O if you knew like me a certain ill | G |
| With which we men are harm'd | Q |
| As well as strangely charm'd | Q |
| No boon from Heaven your heart could like it fill | G |
| Please let me name it in your ear | A |
| A harmless word you need not fear | A |
| Would I deceive you you for whom I bear | A |
| The tenderest sentiments that ever were ' | - |
| Then Amaranth replied | R |
| 'What is its name I beg you do not hide' | R |
| ''Tis LOVE ' ' The word is beautiful reveal | S |
| Its signs and symptoms how it makes one feel ' | - |
| 'Its pains are ecstacies So sweet its stings | T |
| The nectar cups and incense pots of kings | T |
| Compared are flat insipid things | T |
| One strays all lonely in the wood | R |
| Leans silent o'er the placid flood | R |
| And there with great complacency | C |
| A certain face can see | C |
| 'Tis not one's own but image fair | A |
| Retreating | U |
| Fleeting | U |
| Meeting | U |
| Greeting | U |
| Following everywhere | A |
| For all the rest of human kind | R |
| One is as good in short as blind | R |
| There is a shepherd wight I ween | F |
| Well known upon the village green | F |
| Whose voice whose name whose turning of the hinge | V |
| Excites upon the cheek a richer tinge | V |
| The thought of whom is signal for a sigh | W |
| The breast that heaves it knows not why | W |
| Whose face the maiden fears to see | C |
| Yet none so welcome still as he ' | - |
| Here Amaranth cut short his speech | X |
| 'O O is that the evil which you preach | X |
| To me I think it is no stranger | A |
| I must have felt its power and danger ' | - |
| Here Thrysis thought his end was gain'd | R |
| When further thus the maid explain'd | R |
| ''Tis just the very sentiment | R |
| Which I have felt for Clidamant ' | - |
| The other vex'd and mortified | R |
| Now bit his lips and nearly died | R |
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| Like him are multitudes who when | F |
| Their own advancement they have meant | R |
| Have play'd the game of other men | F |
Jean De La Fontaine
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