Phyllida And Corydon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD CCEEBB DDFFGGHHIICCBB| In the merry month of May | A |
| In a morn by break of day | A |
| With a troop of damsels playing | B |
| Forth I rode forsooth a maying | B |
| When anon by a woodside | C |
| Where as May was in his pride | C |
| I espied all alone | D |
| Phyllida and Corydon | D |
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| Much ado there was God wot | C |
| He would love and she would not | C |
| She said never man was true | E |
| He says none was false to you | E |
| He said he had loved her long | B |
| She says Love should have no wrong | B |
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| Corydon would kiss her then | D |
| She says maids must kiss no men | D |
| Till they do for good and all | F |
| Then she made the shepherd call | F |
| All the heavens to witness truth | G |
| Never loved a truer youth | G |
| Thus with many a pretty oath | H |
| Yea and nay and faith and troth | H |
| Such as silly shepherds use | I |
| When they will not love abuse | I |
| Love which had been long deluded | C |
| Was with kisses sweet concluded | C |
| And Phyllida with garlands gay | B |
| Was made the lady of the May | B |
Nicholas Breton
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