The Garland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKBK LMLN OGOP FQFR STST FUFU| The pride of every grove I chose | A |
| The violet sweet and lily fair | B |
| The dappled pink and blushing rose | A |
| To deck my charming Cloe's hair | B |
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| At morn the nymph vouchsafed to place | C |
| Upon her brow the various wreath | D |
| The flowers less blooming than her face | C |
| The scent less fragrant than her breath | E |
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| The flowers she wore along the day | F |
| And every nymph and shepherd said | G |
| That in her hair they look'd more gay | F |
| Than glowing in their native bed | G |
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| Undress'd at evening when she found | H |
| Their odours lost their colours past | I |
| She changed her look and on the ground | H |
| Her garland and her eyes she cast | I |
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| That eye dropp'd sense distinct and clear | J |
| As any Muse's tongue could speak | K |
| When from its lid a pearly tear | B |
| Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek | K |
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| Dissembling what I knew too well | L |
| My love my life said I explain | M |
| This change of humour pr'ythee tell | L |
| That falling tear what does it mean | N |
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| She sigh'd she smiled and to the flowers | O |
| Pointing the lovely moralist said | G |
| See friend in some few fleeting hours | O |
| See yonder what a change is made | P |
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| Ah me the blooming pride of May | F |
| And that of Beauty are but one | Q |
| At morn both flourish bright and gay | F |
| Both fade at evening pale and gone | R |
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| At dawn poor Stella danced and sung | S |
| The amorous youth around her bow'd | T |
| At night her fatal knell was rung | S |
| I saw and kiss'd her in her shroud | T |
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| Such as she is who died to day | F |
| Such I alas may be to morrow | U |
| Go Damon bid thy Muse display | F |
| The justice of thy Cloe's sorrow | U |
Matthew Prior
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