To The Author Of The Foregoing Pastoral - (love And Friendship) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFG HHIIJJKLMM NHOPQR| By Sylvia if thy charming self be meant | A |
| If friendship be thy virgin vows' extent | A |
| O let me in Aminta's praises join | B |
| Hers my esteem shall be my passion thine | C |
| When for thy head the garland I prepare | D |
| A second wreath shall bind Aminta's hair | D |
| And when my choicest songs thy worth proclaim | E |
| Alternate verse shall bless Aminta's name | E |
| My heart shall own the justice of her cause | F |
| And Love himself submit to Friendship's laws | G |
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| But if beneath thy numbers' soft disguise | H |
| Some favour'd swain some true Alexis lies | H |
| If Amaryllis breathes thy secret pains | I |
| And thy fond heart beats measure to thy strains | I |
| May'st thou howe'er I grieve for ever find | J |
| The flame propitious and the lover kind | J |
| May Venus long exert her happy power | K |
| And make thy beauty like thy verse endure | L |
| May every god his friendly aid afford | M |
| Pan guard thy flock and Ceres bless thy board | M |
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| But if by chance the series of thy joys | N |
| Permit one thought less cheerful to arise | H |
| Piteous transfer it to the mournful swain | O |
| Who loving much who not beloved again | P |
| Feels an ill fated passion's last excess | Q |
| And dies in wo that thou may'st live in peace | R |
Matthew Prior
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