The Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCEFGHCHICJHKFHL HMNHCOPQRSCTUVHWCTCH CIXY ZZNN WWCC A2A2B2B2 C2C2HH CA2D2I pipe to Amaryllis while my goats | A |
Tityrus their guardian browse along the fell | B |
O Tityrus as I love thee feed my goats | A |
And lead them to the spring and Tityrus 'ware | C |
The lifted crest of yon gray Libyan ram | D |
Ah winsome Amaryllis Why no more | C |
Greet'st thou thy darling from the caverned rock | E |
Peeping all coyly Think'st thou scorn of him | F |
Hath a near view revealed him satyr shaped | G |
Of chin and nostril I shall hang me soon | H |
See here ten apples from thy favourite tree | C |
I plucked them I shall bring ten more anon | H |
Ah witness my heart anguish Oh were I | I |
A booming bee to waft me to thy lair | C |
Threading the fern and ivy in whose depths | J |
Thou nestlest I have learned what Love is now | H |
Fell god he drank the lioness's milk | K |
In the wild woods his mother cradled him | F |
Whose fire slow burns me smiting to the bone | H |
O thou whose glance is beauty and whose heart | L |
All marble O dark eyebrowed maiden mine | H |
Cling to thy goatherd let him kiss thy lips | M |
For there is sweetness in an empty kiss | N |
Thou wilt not Piecemeal I will rend the crown | H |
The ivy crown which dear I guard for thee | C |
Inwov'n with scented parsley and with flowers | O |
Oh I am desperate what betides me what | P |
Still art thou deaf I'll doff my coat of skins | Q |
And leap into yon waves where on the watch | R |
For mackerel Olpis sits tho' I 'scape death | S |
That I have all but died will pleasure thee | C |
That learned I when I murmuring 'loves she me ' | T |
The Love in absence crushed returned no sound | U |
But shrank and shrivelled on my smooth young wrist | V |
I learned it of the sieve divining crone | H |
Who gleaned behind the reapers yesterday | W |
'Thou'rt wrapt up all ' Agraia said 'in her | C |
She makes of none account her worshipper ' | T |
Lo a white goat and twins I keep for thee | C |
Mermnon's lass covets them dark she is of skin | H |
But yet hers be they thou but foolest me | C |
She cometh by the quivering of mine eye | I |
I'll lean against the pine tree here and sing | X |
She may look round she is not adamant | Y |
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Sings Hippomenes when he a maid would wed | Z |
Took apples in his hand and on he sped | Z |
Famed Atalanta's heart was won by this | N |
She marked and maddening sank in Love's abyss | N |
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From Othrys did the seer Melampus stray | W |
To Pylos with his herd and lo there lay | W |
In a swain's arms a maid of beauty rare | C |
Alphesiboea wise of heart she bare | C |
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Did not Adonis rouse to such excess | A2 |
Of frenzy her whose name is Loveliness | A2 |
He a mere lad whose wethers grazed the hill | B2 |
That dead he's pillowed on her bosom still | B2 |
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Endymion sleeps the sleep that changeth not | C2 |
And maiden mine I envy him his lot | C2 |
Envy Iasion's his it was to gain | H |
Bliss that I dare not breathe in ears profane | H |
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My head aches What reck'st thou I sing no more | C |
E'en where I fell I'll lie until the wolves | A2 |
Rend me may that be honey in thy mouth | D2 |
Jon Corelis Theocritus
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