A Countryman's Wooing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CB A CD AE CE AF CF AG CG AH CH AI CJ AK CK AL CL AM CM AN CN AA CA AO CO AP CP AQ CQ AR CR AE CE AS CS AT CT AU CU AV CV AI CI AW CW AX CX AY CY AU CU AZ CZ AQ CQ AR CR AU CU AU CU AJ CJ AA2 CH B2B2UUNN| THE MAIDEN | A |
| How fell sage Helen through a swain like thee | B |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Nay the true Helen's just now kissing me | B |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Satyr ne'er boast 'what's idler than a kiss ' | - |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Yet in such pleasant idling there is bliss | D |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| I'll wash my mouth where go thy kisses then | E |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Wash and return it to be kissed again | E |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Go kiss your oxen and not unwed maids | F |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Ne'er boast for beauty is a dream that fades | F |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Past grapes are grapes dead roses keep their smell | G |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Come to yon olives I have a tale to tell | G |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Not I you fooled me with smooth words before | H |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Come to yon elms and hear me pipe once more | H |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Pipe to yourself your piping makes me cry | I |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| A maid and flout the Paphian Fie oh fie | J |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| She's naught to me if Artemis' favour last | K |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Hush ere she smite you and entrap you fast | K |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| And let her smite me trap me as she will | L |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Your Artemis shall be your saviour still | L |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Unhand me What again I'll tear your lip | M |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Can you could damsel e'er give Love the slip | M |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| You are his bondslave but not I by Pan | N |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| I doubt he'll give thee to a worser man | N |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Many have wooed me but I fancied none | A |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Till among many came the destined one | A |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Wedlock is woe Dear lad what can I do | O |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Woe it is not but joy and dancing too | O |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Wives dread their husbands so I've heard it said | P |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Nay they rule o'er them What does woman dread | P |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Then children Eileithya's dart is keen | Q |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| But the deliverer Artemis is your queen | Q |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| And bearing children all our grace destroys | R |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Bear them and shine more lustrous in your boys | R |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Should I say yea what dower awaits me then | E |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Thine are my cattle thine this glade and glen | E |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Swear not to wed then leave me in my woe | S |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Not I by Pan though thou should'st bid me go | S |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| And shall a cot be mine with farm and fold | T |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Thy cot's half built fair wethers range this wold | T |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| What what to my old father must I say | U |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Soon as he hears my name he'll not say nay | U |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Speak it by e'en a name we're oft beguiled | V |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| I'm Daphnis Lycid's and Nomaea's child | V |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Well born indeed and not less so am I | I |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| I know Menalcas' daughter may look high | I |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| That grove where stands your sheepfold shew me please | W |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Nay look how green how tall my cypress trees | W |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Graze goats I go to learn the herdsman's trade | X |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Feed bulls I shew my copses to my maid | X |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Satyr what mean you You presume o'ermuch | Y |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| This waist is round and pleasant to the touch | Y |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| By Pan I'm like to swoon Unhand me pray | U |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Why be so timorous Pretty coward stay | U |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| This bank is wet you've soiled my pretty gown | Z |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| See a soft fleece to guard it I put down | Z |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| And you've purloined my sash What can this mean | Q |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| This sash I'll offer to the Paphian queen | Q |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Stay miscreant some one comes I heard a noise | R |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| 'Tis but the green trees whispering of our joys | R |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| You've torn my plaidie and I am half unclad | U |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Anon I'll give thee a yet ampler plaid | U |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Generous just now you'll one day grudge me bread | U |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Ah for thy sake my life blood I could shed | U |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| Artemis forgive Thy eremite breaks her vow | J |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Love and Love's mother claim a calf and cow | J |
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| THE MAIDEN | A |
| A woman I depart my girlhood o'er | A2 |
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| DAPHNIS | C |
| Be wife be mother but a girl no more | H |
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| Thus interchanging whispered talk the pair | B2 |
| Their faces all aglow long lingered there | B2 |
| At length the hour arrived when they must part | U |
| With downcast eyes but sunshine in her heart | U |
| She went to tend her flock while Daphnis ran | N |
| Back to his herded bulls a happy man | N |
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