The Question To Lisetta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFF G HHCCGGIIJJKLKBB| What nymph should I admire or trust | A |
| But Chloe beauteous Chloe just | A |
| What nymph should I desire to see | B |
| But her who leaves the plain for me | B |
| To whom should I compose the lay | C |
| But her who listens when I play | C |
| To whom in song repeat my cares | D |
| But her who in my sorrow shares | D |
| For whom should I the garland make | E |
| But her who joys the gift to take | E |
| And boasts she wears it for my sake | E |
| In love am I not fully blest | F |
| Lisetta prithee tell the rest | F |
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| Lisetta's Reply | G |
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| Sure Chloe just and Chloe fair | H |
| Deserves to be your only care | H |
| But when you and she to day | C |
| Far into the wood did stray | C |
| And I happen'd to pass by | G |
| Which way did you cast your eye | G |
| But when your cares to her you sing | I |
| You dare not tell her whence they spring | I |
| Does it not more afflict your heart | J |
| That in those cares she bears a part | J |
| When you the flowers for Chloe twine | K |
| Why do you to her garland join | L |
| The meanest bud that falls from mine | K |
| Simplest of swains the world may see | B |
| Whom Chloe loves and who loves me | B |
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