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 H2J2J2FJ2J2J2J2FFFF| O'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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