From 'arcades' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFFEAA F GGHHIIJJKKEKLLKKKJMN FFOPFFQQRRPSKK T FU AJAJJJVWXYVVFF T FZ VCYCVA2A2Y FFFFB2B2JJFFKKC2D2FF FFKKYXY E2E2FAAFKKKKKV T FY JJJJVVVVFCFCFCCFF2UG 2G2G2G2FFKKAAKKH2I2K KJ2J2K2TKKL2L2VVVVVV VVKKVVKVVKVVKVJCCFFM 2M2KJJKJ2KJ2KKJKKJH2 H2J2J2FJ2J2J2J2FFFFO'RE the smooth enameld green | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Where no print of step hath been | B |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Follow me as I sing | C |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And touch the warbled string | C |
Under the shady roof | D |
Of branching Elm Star proof | D |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Follow me | E |
I will bring you where she sits | F |
Clad in splendor as befits | F |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Her deity | E |
Such a rural Queen | A |
All Arcadia hath not seen | A |
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From 'Comus' | F |
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THE Star that bids the Shepherd fold | G |
Now the top of Heav'n doth hold | G |
And the gilded Car of Day | H |
His glowing Axle doth allay | H |
In the steep Atlantick stream | I |
And the slope Sun his upward beam | I |
Shoots against the dusky Pole | J |
Pacing toward the other gole | J |
Of his Chamber in the East | K |
Mean while welcom Joy and Feast | K |
Midnight shout and revelry | E |
Tipsie dance and Jollity | K |
Braid your Locks with rosie Twine | L |
Dropping odours dropping Wine | L |
Rigor now is gon to bed | K |
And Advice with scrupulous head | K |
Strict Age and sowre Severity | K |
With their grave Saws in slumber ly | J |
We that are of purer fire | M |
Imitate the Starry Quire | N |
Who in their nightly watchfull Sphears | F |
Lead in swift round the Months and Years | F |
The Sounds and Seas with all their finny drove | O |
Now to the Moon in wavering Morrice move | P |
And on the Tawny Sands and Shelves | F |
Trip the pert Fairies and the dapper Elves | F |
By dimpled Brook and Fountain brim | Q |
The Wood Nymphs deckt with Daisies trim | Q |
Their merry wakes and pastimes keep | R |
What hath night to do with sleep | R |
Night hath better sweets to prove | P |
Venus now wakes and wak'ns Love | S |
Com knit hands and beat the ground | K |
In a light fantastick round | K |
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John Milton | T |
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From' Comus' | F |
ii Echo | U |
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SWEET Echo sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Within thy airy shell | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp By slow Meander's margent green | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp And in the violet imbroider'd vale | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Where the love lorn Nightingale | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Canst thou not tell me of a gentle Pair | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That likest thy Narcissus are | W |
nbsp nbsp nbsp O if thou have | X |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Hid them in som flowry Cave | Y |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Tell me but where | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Sweet Queen of Parly Daughter of the Sphear | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp So maist thou be translated to the skies | F |
And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies | F |
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John Milton | T |
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From' Comus' | F |
iii Sabrina | Z |
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The Spirit sings SABRINA fair | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Listen where thou art sitting | C |
Under the glassie cool translucent wave | Y |
nbsp nbsp nbsp In twisted braids of Lillies knitting | C |
The loose train of thy amber dropping hair | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Listen for dear honour's sake | A2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Goddess of the silver lake | A2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Listen and save | Y |
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Listen and appear to us | F |
In name of great Oceanus | F |
By the earth shaking Neptune's mace | F |
And Tethys grave majestick pace | F |
By hoary Nereus wrincled look | B2 |
And the Carpathian wisards hook | B2 |
By scaly Tritons winding shell | J |
And old sooth saying Glaucus spell | J |
By Leucothea's lovely hands | F |
And her son that rules the strands | F |
By Thetis tinsel slipper'd feet | K |
And the Songs of Sirens sweet | K |
By dead Parthenope's dear tomb | C2 |
And fair Ligea's golden comb | D2 |
Wherwith she sits on diamond rocks | F |
Sleeking her soft alluring locks | F |
By all the Nymphs that nightly dance | F |
Upon thy streams with wily glance | F |
Rise rise and heave thy rosie head | K |
From thy coral pav'n bed | K |
And bridle in thy headlong wave | Y |
Till thou our summons answered have | X |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Listen and save | Y |
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Sabrina replies By the rushy fringed bank | E2 |
Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank | E2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp My sliding Chariot stayes | F |
Thick set with Agat and the azurn sheen | A |
Of Turkis blew and Emrauld green | A |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That in the channell strayes | F |
Whilst from off the waters fleet | K |
Thus I set my printless feet | K |
O're the Cowslips Velvet head | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp That bends not as I tread | K |
Gentle swain at thy request | K |
nbsp nbsp nbsp I am here | V |
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John Milton | T |
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From 'Comus' | F |
iv | Y |
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The Spirit epiloguizes TO the Ocean now I fly | J |
And those happy climes that ly | J |
Where day never shuts his eye | J |
Up in the broad fields of the sky | J |
There I suck the liquid ayr | V |
All amidst the Gardens fair | V |
Of Hesperus and his daughters three | V |
That sing about the golden tree | V |
Along the crisped shades and bowres | F |
Revels the spruce and jocond Spring | C |
The Graces and the rosie boosom'd Howres | F |
Thither all their bounties bring | C |
That there eternal Summer dwels | F |
And West winds with musky wing | C |
About the cedar'n alleys fling | C |
Nard and Cassia's balmy smels | F |
Iris there with humid bow | F2 |
Waters the odorous banks that blow | U |
Flowers of more mingled hew | G2 |
Than her purfl'd scarf can shew | G2 |
And drenches with Elysian dew | G2 |
List mortals if your ears be true | G2 |
Beds of Hyacinth and roses | F |
Where young Adonis oft reposes | F |
Waxing well of his deep wound | K |
In slumber soft and on the ground | K |
Sadly sits th' Assyrian Queen | A |
But far above in spangled sheen | A |
Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc't | K |
Holds his dear Psyche sweet intranc't | K |
After her wandring labours long | H2 |
Till free consent the gods among | I2 |
Make her his eternal Bride | K |
And from her fair unspotted side | K |
Two blissful twins are to be born | J2 |
Youth and Joy so Jove hath sworn | J2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp But now my task is smoothly don | K2 |
I can fly or I can run | T |
Quickly to the green earths end | K |
Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend | K |
And from thence can soar as soon | L2 |
To the corners of the Moon | L2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Mortals that would follow me | V |
Love vertue she alone is free | V |
She can teach ye how to clime | V |
Higher then the Spheary chime | V |
Or if Vertue feeble were | V |
Heav'n it self would stoop to her | V |
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YET once more O ye Laurels and once more | V |
Ye Myrtles brown with Ivy never sear | V |
I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude | K |
And with forc'd fingers rude | K |
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year | V |
Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear | V |
Compels me to disturb your season due | K |
For Lycidas is dead dead ere his prime | V |
Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer | V |
Who would not sing for Lycidas he knew | K |
Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme | V |
He must not flote upon his watry bear | V |
Unwept and welter to the parching wind | K |
Without the meed of som melodious tear | V |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Begin then Sisters of the sacred well | J |
That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring | C |
Begin and somwhat loudly sweep the string | C |
Hence with denial vain and coy excuse | F |
So may som gentle Muse | F |
With lucky words favour my destin'd Urn | M2 |
And as he passes turn | M2 |
And bid fair peace be to my sable shrowd | K |
For we were nurst upon the self same hill | J |
Fed the same flock by fountain shade and rill | J |
nbsp nbsp nbsp Together both ere the high Lawns appear'd | K |
Under the opening eye lids of the morn | J2 |
We drove a field and both together heard | K |
What time the Gray fly winds her sultry horn | J2 |
Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night | K |
Oft till the Star that rose at Ev'ning bright | K |
Toward Heav'ns descent had slop'd his westering wheel | J |
Mean while the Rural ditties were not mute | K |
Temper'd to th'Oaten Flute | K |
Rough Satyrs danc'd and Fauns with clov'n heel | J |
From the glad sound would not be absent long | H2 |
And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song | H2 |
nbsp nbsp nbsp But O the heavy change now thou art gon | J2 |
Now thou art gon and never must return | J2 |
Thee Shepherd thee the Woods and desert Caves | F |
With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown | J2 |
And all their echoes mourn | J2 |
The Willows and the Hazle Copses green | J2 |
Shall now no more be seen | J2 |
Fanning their joyous Leaves to thy soft layes | F |
As killing as the Canker to the Rose | F |
Or Taint worm to the weanling Herds that graze | F |
Or Frost to Flowers | F |
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