A Dittie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACC ADADEE FAFAFA| Behold her lockes like wiers of beaten gold | A |
| her eies like starres that twinkle in the skie | B |
| Her heauenly face not framd of earthly molde | A |
| Her voice that sounds Apollos melodie | A |
| The miracle of time the whole worlds storie | C |
| Fortunes Queen Loues treasure Natures glory | C |
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| No flattering hope she likes blind Fortunes bait | A |
| nor shadowes of delight fond fansies glasse | D |
| Nor charmes that do inchant false artes deceit | A |
| nor fading ioyes which time makes swiftly pas | D |
| But chast desires which beateth all these downe | E |
| A Goddesse looke is worth a Monarchs crowne | E |
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| Goddesse and Monarch of t his happie Ile | F |
| vouchsafe this bow which is an huntresse part | A |
| Your eies are arrows though they seeme to smile | F |
| which neuer glanst but gald the stateliest hart | A |
| Strike one strike all for none at all can flie | F |
| They gaze you in the face although they die | A |
John Lyly
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