L'allegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEEFFDABGGHHIII IJJKKAJLLIIMMIIAAJJA AJJNNIIBBBBHHBBOOBBJ JJJJJPQRRSSTTJJJJUUN NVVJJWXYYJJJJJJJJTTR RJJJJJJBBJJZZEEA2A2B BJJNNJJB2B2AAC2C2BBJ JD2D2E2F2JJIIJBJJG2G 2BF2H2I2HENCE loathed Melancholy | A |
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born | B |
In Stygian cave forlorn | B |
'Mongst horrid shapes and shrieks and sights | C |
unholy | A |
Find out some uncouth cell | D |
Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings | E |
And the night raven sings | E |
There under ebon shades and low browed rocks | F |
As ragged as thy locks | F |
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell | D |
But come thou Goddess fair and free | A |
In heaven yclept Euphrosyne | B |
And by men heart easing Mirth | G |
Whom lovely Venus at a birth | G |
With two sister Graces more | H |
To ivy crowned Bacchus bore | H |
Or whether as some sager sing | I |
The frolic wind that breathes the spring | I |
Zephyr with Aurora pIaying | I |
As he met her once a Maying | I |
There on beds of violets blue | J |
And fresh blown roses washed in dew | J |
Filled her with thee a daughter fair | K |
So buxom blithe and debonair | K |
Haste thee Nymph and bring with thee | A |
Jest and youthful Jollity | J |
Quips and cranks and wanton wiles | L |
Nods and becks and wreathed smiles | L |
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek | I |
And love to live in dimple sleek | I |
Sport that wrinkled Care derides | M |
And Laughter holding both his sides | M |
Come and trip it as you go | I |
On the light fantastic toe | I |
And in thy right hand lead with thee | A |
The mountain nymph sweet Liberty | A |
And if I give thee honour due | J |
Mirth admit me of thy crew | J |
To live with her and live with thee | A |
In unreproved pleasures free | A |
To hear the lark begin his flight | J |
And singing startle the dull night | J |
From his watch tower in the skies | N |
Till the dappled dawn doth rise | N |
Then to come in spite of sorrow | I |
And at my window bid good morrow | I |
Through the sweet briar or the vine | B |
Or the twisted eglantine | B |
While the cock with lively din | B |
Scatters the rear of darkness thin | B |
And to the stack or the barn door | H |
Stoutly struts his dames before | H |
Oft listening how the hounds and horn | B |
Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn | B |
From the side of some hoar hill | O |
Through the high wood echoing shrill | O |
Sometime walking not unseen | B |
By hedgerow elms on hillocks green | B |
Right against the eastern gate | J |
Where the great Sun begins his state | J |
Robed in flames and amber light | J |
The clouds in thousand liveries dight | J |
While the ploughman near at hand | J |
Whistles o'er the furrowed land | J |
And the milkmaid singeth blithe | P |
And the mower whets his scythe | Q |
And every shepherd tells his tale | R |
Under the hawthorn in the dale | R |
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures | S |
Whilst the landskip round it measures | S |
Russet lawns and fallows grey | T |
Where the nibbling flocks do stray | T |
Mountains on whose barren breast | J |
The labouring clouds do often rest | J |
Meadows trim with daisies pied | J |
Shallow brooks and rivers wide | J |
Towers and battlements it sees | U |
Bosomed high in tufted trees | U |
Where perhaps some beauty lies | N |
The cynosure of neighbouring eyes | N |
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes | V |
From betwixt two aged oaks | V |
Where Corydon and Thyrsis met | J |
Are at their savoury dinner set | J |
Of herbs and other country messes | W |
Which the neat handed Phyllis dresses | X |
And then in haste her bower she leaves | Y |
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves | Y |
Or if the earlier season lead | J |
To the tanned haycock in the mead | J |
Sometimes with secure delight | J |
The upland hamlets will invite | J |
When the merry bells ring round | J |
And the jocund rebecks sound | J |
To many a youth and many a maid | J |
Dancing in the chequered shade | J |
And young and old come forth to play | T |
On a sunshine holiday | T |
Till the livelong daylight fail | R |
Then to the spicy nut brown ale | R |
With stories told of many a feat | J |
How Faery Mab the junkets eat | J |
She was pinched and pulled she said | J |
And he by Friar's lantern led | J |
Tells how the drudging goblin sweat | J |
To earn his cream bowl duly set | J |
When in one night ere glimpse of morn | B |
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn | B |
That ten day labourers could not end | J |
Then lies him down the lubber fiend | J |
And stretched out all the chimney's length | Z |
Basks at the fire his hairy strength | Z |
And crop full out of doors he flings | E |
Ere the first cock his matin rings | E |
Thus done the tales to bed they creep | A2 |
By whispering winds soon lulled asleep | A2 |
Towered cities please us then | B |
And the busy hum of men | B |
Where throngs of knights and barons bold | J |
In weeds of peace high triumphs hold | J |
With store of ladies whose bright eyes | N |
Rain influence and judge the prize | N |
Of wit or arms while both contend | J |
To win her grace whom all commend | J |
There let Hymen oft appear | B2 |
In saffron robe with taper clear | B2 |
And pomp and feast and revelry | A |
With mask and antique pageantry | A |
Such sights as youthful poets dream | C2 |
On summer eves by haunted stream | C2 |
Then to the well trod stage anon | B |
If Jonson's learned sock be on | B |
Or sweetest Shakespeare Fancy's child | J |
Warble his native wood notes wild | J |
And ever against eating cares | D2 |
Lap me in soft Lydian airs | D2 |
Married to immortal verse | E2 |
Such as the meeting soul may pierce | F2 |
In notes with many a winding bout | J |
Of linked sweetness long drawn out | J |
With wanton heed and giddy cunning | I |
The melting voice through mazes running | I |
Untwisting all the chains that tie | J |
The hidden soul of harmony | B |
That Orpheus' self may heave his head | J |
From golden slumber on a bed | J |
Of heaped Elysian flowers and hear | G2 |
Such strains as would have won the ear | G2 |
Of Pluto to have quite set free | B |
His half regained Eurydice | F2 |
These delights if thou canst give | H2 |
Mirth with thee I mean to live | I2 |
John Milton
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