From Eclogue Iij Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEEEFF FFDDDD EEFFGG CCDDEE HHEEEE DDHHDD EEEEED EEEEEE HHDDDD EEDDEE EEDDDDO thou fayre siluer Thames O cleerest chrystall flood | A |
Beta alone the Phenix is of all thy watery brood | B |
The Queene of Virgins onely she | C |
And thou the Queene of floods shalt be | C |
Let all thy Nymphes be ioyfull then to see this happy day | D |
Thy Beta now alone shalbe the subiect of my laye | D |
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With daintie and delightsome straines of sweetest virelayes | E |
Come louely shepheards sit we down and chant our Betas prayse | E |
And let vs sing so rare a verse | E |
Our Betas prayses to rehearse | E |
That little Birds shall silent be to heare poore shepheards sing | F |
And riuers backward bend their course and flow vnto the spring | F |
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Range all thy swannes faire Thames together on a rancke | F |
And place them duely one by one vpon thy stately banck | F |
Then set together all agood | D |
Recording to the siluer flood | D |
And craue the tunefull Nightingale to helpe you with her lay | D |
The Osel and the Throstlecocke chiefe musicke of our maye | D |
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O see what troups of Nimphs been sporting on the strands | E |
And they been blessed Nimphs of peace with Oliues in their hands | E |
How meryly the Muses sing | F |
That all the flowry Medowes ring | F |
And Beta sits vpon the banck in purple and in pall | G |
And she the Queene of Muses is and weares the Corinall | G |
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Trim vp her Golden tresses with Apollos sacred tree | C |
O happy sight vnto all those that loue and honor thee | C |
The Blessed Angels haue prepar'd | D |
A glorious Crowne for thy reward | D |
Not such a golden Crowne as haughty C sar weares | E |
But such a glittering starry Crowne as Ariadne beares | E |
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Make her a goodly Chapilet of azur'd Colombine | H |
And wreath about her Coronet with sweetest Eglentine | H |
Bedeck our Beta all with Lillies | E |
And the dayntie Daffadillies | E |
With Roses damask white and red and fairest flower delice | E |
With Cowslips of Jerusalem and cloues of Paradice | E |
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O thou fayre torch of heauen the days most dearest light | D |
And thou bright shyning Cinthya the glory of the night | D |
You starres the eyes of heauen | H |
And thou the glyding leuen | H |
And thou O gorgeous Iris with all strange Colours dyd | D |
When she streams foorth her rayes then dasht is all your pride | D |
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See how the day stands still admiring of her face | E |
And time loe stretcheth foorth her armes thy Beta to imbrace | E |
The Syrens sing sweete layes | E |
The Trytons sound her prayse | E |
Goe passe on Thames and hie thee fast vnto the Ocean sea | E |
And let thy billowes there proclaime thy Betas holy day | D |
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And water thou the blessed roote of that greene Oliue tree | E |
With whose sweete shadow al thy bancks with peace preserued be | E |
Lawrell for Poets and Conquerours | E |
And mirtle for Loues Paramours | E |
That fame may be thy fruit the boughes preseru'd by peace | E |
And let the mournful Cipres die now stormes and tempest cease | E |
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Wee'l straw the shore with pearle where Beta walks alone | H |
And we wil paue her princely Bower with richest Indian stone | H |
Perfume the ayre and make it sweete | D |
For such a Goddesse it is meete | D |
For if her eyes for purity contend with Titans light | D |
No maruaile then although they so doe dazell humaine sight | D |
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Sound out your trumpets then from London's stately towres | E |
To beate the stormie windes a back and calme the raging showres | E |
Set too the Cornet and the flute | D |
The Orpharyon and the Lute | D |
And tune the Taber and the Pipe to the sweet violons | E |
And moue the thunder in the ayre with lowdest Clarions | E |
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Beta long may thine Altars smoke with yeerely sacrifice | E |
And long thy sacred Temples may their Saboths solemnize | E |
Thy shepheards watch by day and night | D |
Thy Mayds attend the holy light | D |
And thy large empyre stretch her armes from east vnto the west | D |
And thou vnder thy feet mayst tread that foule seuen headed beast | D |
Michael Drayton
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john hall: Hurrah! The line about the goodly chapilet had stuck in my mind for thirty years or more (I'd read it in a novel without attribution) and I'd never found it in dictionaries of quotes. Now thanks to you I have a fat Poems of Drayton on my bookshelves.
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