Sirena Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHHGIG EGEGJGJGKLMLH LGLGNGNGOBOBH KGPGQGRGJJJJH SFSFEBEBJGJGH JLJLJGJGJEJEH JTJTEEEEFBFBH JGJGUTUTJGJGH GEGEVEVEFBFBH EGEGJGJGJGJGHHGIG| Near to the silver Trent | A |
| SIRENA dwelleth | B |
| She to whom Nature lent | A |
| All that excelleth | B |
| By which the Muses late | C |
| And the neat Graces | D |
| Have for their greater state | C |
| Taken their places | E |
| Twisting an anadem | F |
| Wherewith to crown her | G |
| As it belong'd to them | F |
| Most to renown her | G |
| On thy bank | H |
| In a rank | H |
| Let thy swans sing her | G |
| And with their music | I |
| Along let them bring her | G |
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| Tagus and Pactolus | E |
| Are to thee debtor | G |
| Nor for their gold to us | E |
| Are they the better | G |
| Henceforth of all the rest | J |
| Be thou the River | G |
| Which as the daintiest | J |
| Puts them down ever | G |
| For as my precious one | K |
| O'er thee doth travel | L |
| She to pearl paragon | M |
| Turneth thy gravel | L |
| On thy bank | H |
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| Our mournful Philomel | L |
| That rarest tuner | G |
| Henceforth in Aperil | L |
| Shall wake the sooner | G |
| And to her shall complain | N |
| From the thick cover | G |
| Redoubling every strain | N |
| Over and over | G |
| For when my Love too long | O |
| Her chamber keepeth | B |
| As though it suffer'd wrong | O |
| The Morning weepeth | B |
| On thy bank | H |
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| Oft have I seen the Sun | K |
| To do her honour | G |
| Fix himself at his noon | P |
| To look upon her | G |
| And hath gilt every grove | Q |
| Every hill near her | G |
| With his flames from above | R |
| Striving to cheer her | G |
| And when she from his sight | J |
| Hath herself turn egrave d | J |
| He as it had been night | J |
| In clouds hath mourn egrave d | J |
| On thy bank | H |
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| The verdant meads are seen | S |
| When she doth view them | F |
| In fresh and gallant green | S |
| Straight to renew them | F |
| And every little grass | E |
| Broad itself spreadeth | B |
| Proud that this bonny lass | E |
| Upon it treadeth | B |
| Nor flower is so sweet | J |
| In this large cincture | G |
| But it upon her feet | J |
| Leaveth some tincture | G |
| On thy bank | H |
| - | |
| The fishes in the flood | J |
| When she doth angle | L |
| For the hook strive a good | J |
| Them to entangle | L |
| And leaping on the land | J |
| From the clear water | G |
| Their scales upon the sand | J |
| Lavishly scatter | G |
| Therewith to pave the mould | J |
| Whereon she passes | E |
| So herself to behold | J |
| As in her glasses | E |
| On thy bank | H |
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| When she looks out by night | J |
| The stars stand gazing | T |
| Like comets to our sight | J |
| Fearfully blazing | T |
| As wond'ring at her eyes | E |
| With their much brightness | E |
| Which so amaze the skies | E |
| Dimming their lightness | E |
| The raging tempests are calm | F |
| When she speaketh | B |
| Such most delightsome balm | F |
| From her lips breaketh | B |
| On thy bank | H |
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| In all our Brittany | J |
| There 's not a fairer | G |
| Nor can you fit any | J |
| Should you compare her | G |
| Angels her eyelids keep | U |
| All hearts surprising | T |
| Which look whilst she doth sleep | U |
| Like the sun's rising | T |
| She alone of her kind | J |
| Knoweth true measure | G |
| And her unmatch egrave d mind | J |
| Is heaven's treasure | G |
| On thy bank | H |
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| Fair Dove and Darwen clear | G |
| Boast ye your beauties | E |
| To Trent your mistress here | G |
| Yet pay your duties | E |
| My Love was higher born | V |
| Tow'rds the full fountains | E |
| Yet she doth moorland scorn | V |
| And the Peak mountains | E |
| Nor would she none should dream | F |
| Where she abideth | B |
| Humble as is the stream | F |
| Which by her slideth | B |
| On thy bank | H |
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| Yet my pour rustic Muse | E |
| Nothing can move her | G |
| Nor the means I can use | E |
| Though her true lover | G |
| Many a long winter's night | J |
| Have I waked for her | G |
| Yet this my piteous plight | J |
| Nothing can stir her | G |
| All thy sands silver Trent | J |
| Down to the Humber | G |
| The sighs that I have spent | J |
| Never can number | G |
| On thy bank | H |
| In a rank | H |
| Let thy swans sing her | G |
| And with their music | I |
| Along let them bring her | G |
Michael Drayton
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