Astrophel And Stella - Ninth Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD CECEE AEAEE EFEFF EFEFF EGEGG EFEFF HEHEE FBFBB| Go my Flocke go get you hence | A |
| Seeke a better place of feeding | B |
| Where you may haue some defence | A |
| Fro the stormes in my breast breeding | B |
| And showers from mine eyes proceeding | B |
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| Leaue a wretch in whom all wo | C |
| Can abide to keepe no measure | D |
| Merry Flocke such one forego | C |
| Vnto whom mirth is displeasure | D |
| Onely rich in mischiefs treasure | D |
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| Yet alas before you go | C |
| Heare your wofull Maisters story | E |
| Which to stones I els would show | C |
| Sorrow only then hath glory | E |
| When 'tis excellently sorry | E |
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| Stella fiercest shepherdesse | A |
| Fiercest but yet fairest euer | E |
| Stella whom O heauens still blesse | A |
| Though against me she perseuer | E |
| Though I blisse enherit neuer | E |
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| Stella hath refused me | E |
| Stella who more loue hath proued | F |
| In this caitife heart to be | E |
| Then can in good eawes be moued | F |
| Toward Lambkins best beloued | F |
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| Stella hath refused me | E |
| Astrophell that so well served | F |
| In this pleasant Spring must see | E |
| While in pride flowers be preserued | F |
| Himselfe onely Winter sterued | F |
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| Why alas doth she then sweare | E |
| That she loueth me so dearely | G |
| Seeing me so long to beare | E |
| Coles of loue that burne so cleerly | G |
| And yet leaue me helplesse meerely | G |
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| Is that loue forsooth I trow | E |
| If I saw my good dog grieued | F |
| And a helpe for him did know | E |
| My loue should not be beleeued | F |
| But he were by me releeued | F |
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| No she hates me well away | H |
| Faining loue somewhat to please me | E |
| For she knows if she display | H |
| All her hate death soone would seaze me | E |
| And of hideous torments ease me | E |
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| Then adieu deare Flocke adieu | F |
| But alas if in your straying | B |
| Heauenly Stella meete with you | F |
| Tell her in your pitious blaying | B |
| Her poore Slaues vniust decaying | B |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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