From Eclogue Ix Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG CHCH FIFI JGJG CGCG FFFF GCGC FFFF GCHC KCLC| BATTE | A |
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| Gorbo as thou cam'st this waye | B |
| By yonder little hill | C |
| Or as thou through the fields didst straye | B |
| Sawst thou my Daffadill | C |
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| Shee's in a frock of Lincolne greene | D |
| The colour maides delight | E |
| And neuer hath her beauty seen | D |
| But through a vale of white | E |
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| Then Roses richer to behold | F |
| That trim vp louers bowers | G |
| The Pansy and the Marigould | F |
| Tho Phoebus Paramours | G |
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| Gorbo Thou well describ'st the Daffadill | C |
| It is not full an hower | H |
| Since by the spring neare yonder hill | C |
| I saw that louely flower | H |
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| Batte Yet my faire flower thou didst not meet | F |
| Nor news of her didst bring | I |
| And yet my Daffadill more sweete | F |
| Then that by yonder spring | I |
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| Gorbo I saw a shepheard that doth keepe | J |
| In yonder field of Lillies | G |
| Was making as he fed his sheepe | J |
| A wreathe of Daffadillies | G |
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| Batte Yet Gorbo thou delud'st me stil | C |
| My flower thou didst not see | G |
| For know my pretie Daffadill | C |
| Is worne of none but me | G |
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| To shew it selfe but neare her seate | F |
| No Lilly is so bould | F |
| Except to shade her from the heate | F |
| Or keepe her from the colde | F |
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| Gorbo Through yonder vale as I did passe | G |
| Descending from the hill | C |
| I met a smerking bony lasse | G |
| They call her Daffadill | C |
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| Whose presence as along she went | F |
| The prety flowers did greet | F |
| As though their heads they downward bent | F |
| With homage to her feete | F |
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| And all the shepheards that were nie | G |
| From toppe of euery hill | C |
| Vnto the vallies lowe did crie | H |
| There goes sweet Daffadill | C |
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| Gorbo I gentle shepheard now with ioy | K |
| Thou all my flockes dost fill | C |
| That's she alone kind shepheards boy | L |
| Let vs to Daffadill | C |
Michael Drayton
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