A Sweet Pastoral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DGDG HIHI JKLK MNMN DODO DPDP NQRQ| Good Muse rock me asleep | A |
| With some sweet harmony | B |
| The weary eye is not to keep | A |
| Thy wary company | B |
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| Sweet Love begone awhile | C |
| Thou knowest my heaviness | D |
| Beauty is born but to beguile | C |
| My heart of happiness | D |
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| See how my little flock | E |
| That loved to feed on high | F |
| Do headlong tumble down the rock | E |
| And in the valley die | F |
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| The bushes and the trees | D |
| That were so fresh and green | G |
| Do all their dainty colour leese | D |
| And not a leaf is seen | G |
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| The blackbird and the thrush | H |
| That made the woods to ring | I |
| With all the rest are now at hush | H |
| And not a note they sing | I |
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| Sweet Philomel the bird | J |
| That hath the heavenly throat | K |
| Doth now alas not once afford | L |
| Recording of a note | K |
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| The flowers have had a frost | M |
| Each herb hath lost her savour | N |
| And Phyllida the fair hath lost | M |
| The comfort of her favour | N |
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| Now all these careful sights | D |
| So kill me in conceit | O |
| That now to hope upon delights | D |
| It is but mere deceit | O |
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| And therefore my sweet Muse | D |
| Thou knowest what help is best | P |
| Do now thy heavenly cunning use | D |
| To set my heart at rest | P |
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| And in a dream bewray | N |
| What fate shall be my friend | Q |
| Whether my life shall still decay | R |
| Or when my sorrow end | Q |
Nicholas Breton
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