L'allegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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HENCE loathed MelancholyA
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight bornB
In Stygian cave forlornB
'Mongst horrid shapes and shrieks and sightsC
unholyA
Find out some uncouth cellD
Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wingsE
And the night raven singsE
There under ebon shades and low browed rocksF
As ragged as thy locksF
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwellD
But come thou Goddess fair and freeA
In heaven yclept EuphrosyneB
And by men heart easing MirthG
Whom lovely Venus at a birthG
With two sister Graces moreH
To ivy crowned Bacchus boreH
Or whether as some sager singI
The frolic wind that breathes the springI
Zephyr with Aurora pIayingI
As he met her once a MayingI
There on beds of violets blueJ
And fresh blown roses washed in dewJ
Filled her with thee a daughter fairK
So buxom blithe and debonairK
Haste thee Nymph and bring with theeA
Jest and youthful JollityJ
Quips and cranks and wanton wilesL
Nods and becks and wreathed smilesL
Such as hang on Hebe's cheekI
And love to live in dimple sleekI
Sport that wrinkled Care deridesM
And Laughter holding both his sidesM
Come and trip it as you goI
On the light fantastic toeI
And in thy right hand lead with theeA
The mountain nymph sweet LibertyA
And if I give thee honour dueJ
Mirth admit me of thy crewJ
To live with her and live with theeA
In unreproved pleasures freeA
To hear the lark begin his flightJ
And singing startle the dull nightJ
From his watch tower in the skiesN
Till the dappled dawn doth riseN
Then to come in spite of sorrowI
And at my window bid good morrowI
Through the sweet briar or the vineB
Or the twisted eglantineB
While the cock with lively dinB
Scatters the rear of darkness thinB
And to the stack or the barn doorH
Stoutly struts his dames beforeH
Oft listening how the hounds and hornB
Cheerly rouse the slumbering mornB
From the side of some hoar hillO
Through the high wood echoing shrillO
Sometime walking not unseenB
By hedgerow elms on hillocks greenB
Right against the eastern gateJ
Where the great Sun begins his stateJ
Robed in flames and amber lightJ
The clouds in thousand liveries dightJ
While the ploughman near at handJ
Whistles o'er the furrowed landJ
And the milkmaid singeth blitheP
And the mower whets his scytheQ
And every shepherd tells his taleR
Under the hawthorn in the daleR
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasuresS
Whilst the landskip round it measuresS
Russet lawns and fallows greyT
Where the nibbling flocks do strayT
Mountains on whose barren breastJ
The labouring clouds do often restJ
Meadows trim with daisies piedJ
Shallow brooks and rivers wideJ
Towers and battlements it seesU
Bosomed high in tufted treesU
Where perhaps some beauty liesN
The cynosure of neighbouring eyesN
Hard by a cottage chimney smokesV
From betwixt two aged oaksV
Where Corydon and Thyrsis metJ
Are at their savoury dinner setJ
Of herbs and other country messesW
Which the neat handed Phyllis dressesX
And then in haste her bower she leavesY
With Thestylis to bind the sheavesY
Or if the earlier season leadJ
To the tanned haycock in the meadJ
Sometimes with secure delightJ
The upland hamlets will inviteJ
When the merry bells ring roundJ
And the jocund rebecks soundJ
To many a youth and many a maidJ
Dancing in the chequered shadeJ
And young and old come forth to playT
On a sunshine holidayT
Till the livelong daylight failR
Then to the spicy nut brown aleR
With stories told of many a featJ
How Faery Mab the junkets eatJ
She was pinched and pulled she saidJ
And he by Friar's lantern ledJ
Tells how the drudging goblin sweatJ
To earn his cream bowl duly setJ
When in one night ere glimpse of mornB
His shadowy flail hath threshed the cornB
That ten day labourers could not endJ
Then lies him down the lubber fiendJ
And stretched out all the chimney's lengthZ
Basks at the fire his hairy strengthZ
And crop full out of doors he flingsE
Ere the first cock his matin ringsE
Thus done the tales to bed they creepA2
By whispering winds soon lulled asleepA2
Towered cities please us thenB
And the busy hum of menB
Where throngs of knights and barons boldJ
In weeds of peace high triumphs holdJ
With store of ladies whose bright eyesN
Rain influence and judge the prizeN
Of wit or arms while both contendJ
To win her grace whom all commendJ
There let Hymen oft appearB2
In saffron robe with taper clearB2
And pomp and feast and revelryA
With mask and antique pageantryA
Such sights as youthful poets dreamC2
On summer eves by haunted streamC2
Then to the well trod stage anonB
If Jonson's learned sock be onB
Or sweetest Shakespeare Fancy's childJ
Warble his native wood notes wildJ
And ever against eating caresD2
Lap me in soft Lydian airsD2
Married to immortal verseE2
Such as the meeting soul may pierceF2
In notes with many a winding boutJ
Of linked sweetness long drawn outJ
With wanton heed and giddy cunningI
The melting voice through mazes runningI
Untwisting all the chains that tieJ
The hidden soul of harmonyB
That Orpheus' self may heave his headJ
From golden slumber on a bedJ
Of heaped Elysian flowers and hearG2
Such strains as would have won the earG2
Of Pluto to have quite set freeB
His half regained EurydiceF2
These delights if thou canst giveH2
Mirth with thee I mean to liveI2

John Milton



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