A Pastoral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJAJ HKHK KKKK LMLNOn 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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