L'allegro Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDEECABFFGGHHHH IIJJAIKKHHLLHHAAIJAA IIMMJJBBBBJJBBNNBBII IIIIOOPPQQJJIIIIRRMM SSIISSSSIIIIIIIIJIPP IIIIIIBBIITTSSUUBBII SSIIJJAAVVBBIISSSSII HHIBIIJJBSWX| Hence loath egrave d Melancholy | A |
| Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born | B |
| In Stygian Cave forlorn | B |
| 'Mongst horrid shapes and shreiks and sights unholy | A |
| Find out som uncouth cell | C |
| Where brooding darknes spreads his jealous wings | D |
| And the night Raven sings | D |
| There under Ebon shades and low brow'd Rocks | E |
| As ragged as thy Locks | E |
| In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell | C |
| But com thou Goddes fair and free | A |
| In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne | B |
| And by men heart easing Mirth | F |
| Whom lovely Venus at a birth | F |
| With two sister Graces more | G |
| To Ivy crown egrave d Bacchus bore | G |
| Or whether as som Sager sing | H |
| The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring | H |
| Zephir with Aurora playing | H |
| As he met her once a Maying | H |
| There on Beds of Violets blew | I |
| And fresh blown Roses washt in dew | I |
| Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair | J |
| So bucksom blith and debonair | J |
| Haste thee nymph and bring with thee | A |
| Jest and youthful Jollity | I |
| Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles | K |
| Nods and Becks and Wreath egrave d Smiles | K |
| Such as hang on Hebe's cheek | H |
| And love to live in dimple sleek | H |
| Sport that wrincled Care derides | L |
| And Laughter holding both his sides | L |
| Com and trip it as ye go | H |
| On the light fantastick toe | H |
| And in thy right hand lead with thee | A |
| The Mountain Nymph sweet Liberty | A |
| And if I give thee honour due | I |
| Mirth admit me of thy crue | J |
| To live with her and live with thee | A |
| In unreprov egrave d pleasures free | A |
| To hear the Lark begin his flight | I |
| And singing startle the dull night | I |
| From his watch towre in the skies | M |
| Till the dappled dawn doth rise | M |
| Then to com in spight of sorrow | J |
| And at my window bid good morrow | J |
| Through the Sweet Briar or the Vine | B |
| Or the twisted Eglantine | B |
| While the Cock with lively din | B |
| Scatters the rear of darknes thin | B |
| And to the stack or the Barn dore | J |
| Stoutly struts his Dames before | J |
| Oft list'ning how the Hounds and horn | B |
| Chearly rouse the slumbring morn | B |
| From the side of som Hoar Hill | N |
| Through the high wood echoing shrill | N |
| Som time walking not unseen | B |
| By Hedge row Elms on Hillocks green | B |
| Right against the Eastern gate | I |
| Wher the great Sun begins his state | I |
| Rob'd in flames and Amber light | I |
| The clouds in thousand Liveries dight | I |
| While the Plowman neer at hand | I |
| Whistles ore the Furrow'd Land | I |
| And the Milkmaid singeth blithe | O |
| And the Mower whets his sithe | O |
| And every Shepherd tells his tale | P |
| Under the Hawthorn in the dale | P |
| Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures | Q |
| Whilst the Lantskip round it measures | Q |
| Russet Lawns and Fallows Gray | J |
| Where the nibling flocks do stray | J |
| Mountains on whose barren brest | I |
| The labouring clouds do often rest | I |
| Meadows trim with Daisies pide | I |
| Shallow Brooks and Rivers wide | I |
| Towers and Battlements it sees | R |
| Boosom'd high in tufted Trees | R |
| Wher perhaps som beauty lies | M |
| The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes | M |
| Hard by a Cottage chimney smokes | S |
| From betwixt two ag egrave d Okes | S |
| Where Corydon and Thyrsis met | I |
| Are at their savory dinner set | I |
| Of Hearbs and other Country Messes | S |
| Which the neat handed Phillis dresses | S |
| And then in haste her Bowre she leaves | S |
| With Thestylis to bind the Sheaves | S |
| Or if the earlier season lead | I |
| To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead | I |
| Som times with secure delight | I |
| The up land Hamlets will invite | I |
| When the merry Bells ring round | I |
| And the jocond rebecks sound | I |
| To many a youth and many a maid | I |
| Dancing in the Chequer'd shade | I |
| And young and old com forth to play | J |
| On a Sunshine Holyday | I |
| Till the live long day light fail | P |
| Then to the Spicy Nut brown Ale | P |
| With stories told of many a feat | I |
| How Faery Mab the junkets eat | I |
| She was pincht and pull'd the sed | I |
| And he by Friars Lanthorn led | I |
| Tells how the drudging Goblin swet | I |
| To ern his Cream bowle duly set | I |
| When in one night ere glimps of morn | B |
| His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn | B |
| That ten day labourers could not end | I |
| Then lies him down the Lubbar Fend | I |
| And stretch'd out all the Chimney's length | T |
| Basks at the fire his hairy strength | T |
| And Crop full out of dores he flings | S |
| Ere the first Cock his Mattin rings | S |
| Thus don the Tales to bed they creep | U |
| By whispering Windes soon lull'd asleep | U |
| Towred Cities please us then | B |
| And the busie humm of men | B |
| Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold | I |
| In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold | I |
| With store of Ladies whose bright eies | S |
| Rain influence and judge the prise | S |
| Of Wit or Arms while both contend | I |
| To win her Grace whom all commend | I |
| There let Hymen oft appear | J |
| In Saffron robe with Taper clear | J |
| And pomp and feast and revelry | A |
| With mask and antique Pageantry | A |
| Such sights as youthfull Poets dream | V |
| On Summer eeves by haunted stream | V |
| Then to the well trod stage anon | B |
| If Jonsons learn egrave d Sock be on | B |
| Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe | I |
| Warble his native Wood notes wilde | I |
| And ever against eating Cares | S |
| Lap me in soft Lydian Aires | S |
| Married to immortal verse | S |
| Such as the meeting soul may pierce | S |
| In notes with many a winding bout | I |
| Of linck egrave d sweetnes long drawn out | I |
| With wanton heed and giddy cunning | H |
| The melting voice through mazes running | H |
| Untwisting all the chains that ty | I |
| The hidden soul of harmony | B |
| That Orpheus self may heave his head | I |
| From golden slumber on a bed | I |
| Of heapt Elysian flowres and hear | J |
| Such streins as would have won the ear | J |
| Of Pluto to have quite set free | B |
| His half regain'd Eurydice | S |
| These delights if thou canst give | W |
| Mirth with thee I mean to live | X |
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