The Passionate Shepherd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIGG JJKKLLJJMMWho can live in heart so glad | A |
As the merry country lad | A |
Who upon a fair green balk | B |
May at pleasure sit and walk | B |
And amid the azure skies | C |
See the morning sun arise | C |
While he hears in every spring | D |
How the birds do chirp and sing | D |
Or before the hounds in cry | E |
See the hare go stealing by | E |
Or along the shallow brook | F |
Angling with a baited hook | F |
See the fishes leap and play | G |
In a blessed sunny day | G |
Or to hear the partridge call | H |
Till she have her covey all | H |
Or to see the subtle fox | I |
How the villain plies the box | I |
After feeding on his prey | G |
How he closely sneaks away | G |
Through the hedge and down the furrow | J |
Till he gets into his burrow | J |
Then the bee to gather honey | K |
And the little black hair'd coney | K |
On a bank for sunny place | L |
With her forefeet wash her face | L |
Are not these with thousands moe | J |
Than the courts of kings do know | J |
The true pleasing spirits sights | M |
That may breed true love's delights | M |
Nicholas Breton
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