A Pastoral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJAJ HKHK KKKK LMLN| On a hill there grows a flower | A |
| Fair befall the dainty sweet | B |
| By that flower there is a bower | A |
| Where the heavenly Muses meet | B |
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| In the bower there is a chair | C |
| Fringed all about with gold | D |
| Where doth sit the fairest fair | C |
| That did ever eye behold | D |
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| It is Phyllis fair and bright | E |
| She that is the shepherds' joy | F |
| She that Venus did despite | E |
| And did blind her little boy | F |
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| This is she the wise the rich | G |
| That the world desires to see | H |
| This is ipsa quae the which | G |
| There is none but only she | H |
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| Who would not this face admire | I |
| Who would not this saint adore | J |
| Who would not this sight desire | A |
| Though he thought to see no more | J |
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| O fair eyes yet let me see | H |
| One good look and I am gone | K |
| Look on me for I am he | H |
| Thy poor silly Corydon | K |
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| Thou that art the shepherds' queen | K |
| Look upon thy silly swain | K |
| By thy comfort have been seen | K |
| Dead men brought to life again | K |
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| Make him live that dying long | L |
| Never durst for comfort seek | M |
| Thou shalt hear so sweet a song | L |
| Never shepherd sung the like | N |
Nicholas Breton
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