From Eclogue Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCA DAEFFG AEEAAA GAFHHI AJJJJA JKKJJJ ALMFFA NJJFFO FAAGGPMelpomine put on thy mourning Gaberdine | A |
And set thy song vnto the dolefull Base | B |
And with thy sable vayle shadow thy face | B |
with weeping verse | C |
attend his hearse | C |
Whose blessed soule the heauens doe now enshrine | A |
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Come Nymphs and with your Rebecks ring his knell | D |
Warble forth your wamenting harmony | A |
And at his drery fatall obsequie | E |
with Cypres bowes | F |
maske your fayre Browes | F |
And beat your breasts to chyme his burying peale | G |
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Thy birth day was to all our ioye the euen | A |
And on thy death this dolefull song we sing | E |
Sweet Child of Pan and the Castalian spring | E |
vnto our endless mone | A |
from vs why art thou gone | A |
To fill vp that sweete Angels quier in heauen | A |
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O whylome thou thy lasses dearest loue | G |
When with greene Lawrell she hath crowned thee | A |
Immortal mirror of all Poesie | F |
the Muses treasure | H |
the Graces pleasure | H |
Reigning with Angels now in heauen aboue | I |
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Our mirth is now depriu'd of all her glory | A |
Our Taburins in dolefull dumps are drownd | J |
Our viols want their sweet and pleasing sound | J |
our melodie is mar'd | J |
and we of ioyes debard | J |
O wicked world so mutable and transitory | A |
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O dismall day bereauer of delight | J |
O stormy winter sourse of all our sorrow | K |
O most vntimely and eclipsed morrow | K |
to rob us quite | J |
of all delight | J |
Darkening that starre which euer shone so bright | J |
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Oh Elphin Elphin Though thou hence be gone | A |
In spight of death yet shalt thou liue for aye | L |
Thy Poesie is garlanded with Baye | M |
and still shalt blaze | F |
thy lasting prayse | F |
Whose losse poore shepherds euer shall bemone | A |
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Come Girles and with Carnations decke his graue | N |
With damaske Roses and the hyacynt | J |
Come with sweete Williams Marioram and Mynt | J |
with precious Balmes | F |
with hymnes and psalmes | F |
This funerall deserues no lesse at all to haue | O |
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But see where Elphin sits in fayre Elizia | F |
Feeding his flocke on yonder heauenly playne | A |
Come and behold you louely shepheards swayne | A |
piping his fill | G |
on yonder hill | G |
Tasting sweete Nectar and Ambrosia | P |
Michael Drayton
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