The Serenade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCEFGHCHICJHKFHL HMNHCOPQRSCTUVHWCTCH CIXY ZZNN WWCC A2A2B2B2 C2C2HH CA2D2| I 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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