Syrinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFDGGDD| Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed | A |
| Though now she's turned into a reed | A |
| From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come | B |
| A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb | B |
| Nor flute nor lute nor gittern can | C |
| So chant it as the pipe of Pan | C |
| Cross gartered swains and dairy girls | D |
| With faces smug and round as pearls | D |
| When Pan's shrill pipe begins to play | E |
| With dancing wear out night and day | E |
| The bagpipe's drone his hum lays by | F |
| When Pan sounds up his minstrelsy | D |
| His minstrelsy O base this quill | G |
| Which at my mouth with wind I fill | G |
| Puts me in mind though her I miss | D |
| That still my Syrinx' lips I kiss | D |
John Lyly
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