Song Of A Scholar And His Mistress, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C DEFD GGHGIIJKLLEE M NOP Q RSRSTS UVU W WFWF X Y| Who Being Crossed By Their Friends Fell Mad For One Another And Now First Meet In Bedlam | A |
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| Music within | B |
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| The Lovers enter at opposite doors each held by a keeper | C |
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| Phillis Look look I see I see my love appear | D |
| 'Tis he 'Tis he alone | E |
| For like him there is none | F |
| 'Tis the dear dear man 'tis thee dear | D |
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| Amyntas Hark the winds war | G |
| The foamy waves roar | G |
| I see a ship afar | H |
| Tossing and tossing and making to the shore | G |
| But what's that I view | I |
| So radiant of hue | I |
| St Hermo St Hermo that sits upon the sails | J |
| Ah No no no | K |
| St Hermo never never shone so bright | L |
| 'Tis Phillis only Phillis can shoot so fair a light | L |
| 'Tis Phillis 'tis Phillis that saves the ship alone | E |
| For all the winds are hush'd and the storm is overblown | E |
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| Phillis Let me go let me run let me fly to his arms | M |
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| Amyntas If all the fates combine | N |
| And all the furies join | O |
| I'll force my way to Phillis and break through the charm | P |
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| Here they break from their keepers run to each other and embrace | Q |
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| Phillis Shall I marry the man I love | R |
| And shall I conclude my pains | S |
| Now bless'd be the powers above | R |
| I feel the blood bound in my veins | S |
| With a lively leap it began to move | T |
| And the vapours leave my brains | S |
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| Amyntas Body join'd to body and heart join'd to heart | U |
| To make sure of the cure | V |
| Go call the man in black to mumble o'er his part | U |
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| Phillis But suppose he should stay | W |
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| Amyntas At worst if he delay | W |
| 'Tis a work must be done | F |
| We'll borrow but a day | W |
| And the better the sooner begun | F |
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| Cho of both At worst if he delay c | X |
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| They run out together hand in hand | Y |
John Dryden
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