From Eclogue Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA DAEFFG AEEAAA GAFHHI AJJJJA JKKJJJ ALMFFA NJJFFO FAAGGP

Melpomine put on thy mourning GaberdineA
And set thy song vnto the dolefull BaseB
And with thy sable vayle shadow thy faceB
with weeping verseC
attend his hearseC
Whose blessed soule the heauens doe now enshrineA
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Come Nymphs and with your Rebecks ring his knellD
Warble forth your wamenting harmonyA
And at his drery fatall obsequieE
with Cypres bowesF
maske your fayre BrowesF
And beat your breasts to chyme his burying pealeG
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Thy birth day was to all our ioye the euenA
And on thy death this dolefull song we singE
Sweet Child of Pan and the Castalian springE
vnto our endless moneA
from vs why art thou goneA
To fill vp that sweete Angels quier in heauenA
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O whylome thou thy lasses dearest loueG
When with greene Lawrell she hath crowned theeA
Immortal mirror of all PoesieF
the Muses treasureH
the Graces pleasureH
Reigning with Angels now in heauen aboueI
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Our mirth is now depriu'd of all her gloryA
Our Taburins in dolefull dumps are drowndJ
Our viols want their sweet and pleasing soundJ
our melodie is mar'dJ
and we of ioyes debardJ
O wicked world so mutable and transitoryA
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O dismall day bereauer of delightJ
O stormy winter sourse of all our sorrowK
O most vntimely and eclipsed morrowK
to rob us quiteJ
of all delightJ
Darkening that starre which euer shone so brightJ
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Oh Elphin Elphin Though thou hence be goneA
In spight of death yet shalt thou liue for ayeL
Thy Poesie is garlanded with BayeM
and still shalt blazeF
thy lasting prayseF
Whose losse poore shepherds euer shall bemoneA
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Come Girles and with Carnations decke his graueN
With damaske Roses and the hyacyntJ
Come with sweete Williams Marioram and MyntJ
with precious BalmesF
with hymnes and psalmesF
This funerall deserues no lesse at all to haueO
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But see where Elphin sits in fayre EliziaF
Feeding his flocke on yonder heauenly playneA
Come and behold you louely shepheards swayneA
piping his fillG
on yonder hillG
Tasting sweete Nectar and AmbrosiaP

Michael Drayton



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