Astrophel And Stella - Sixt Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDDFF BGBHII IIIIJJ IKIKII IFIFLL MNMNOO FIFIII F FPP| O you that heare this voice | A |
| O you that see this face | B |
| Say whether of the choice | A |
| Deserues the former place | B |
| Feare not to iudge this bate | C |
| For it is void of hate | C |
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| This side doth Beauty take | D |
| For that doth Musike speake | E |
| Fit Oratours to make | D |
| The strongest iudgements weake | D |
| The barre to plead their right | F |
| Is only true delight | F |
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| Thus doth the voice and face | B |
| These gentle Lawiers wage | G |
| Like louing brothers case | B |
| For fathers heritage | H |
| That each while each contends | I |
| It selfe to other lends | I |
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| For Beautie beautifies | I |
| With heau'nly hew and grace | I |
| The heau'nly harmonies | I |
| And in this faultlesse face | I |
| The perfect beauties be | J |
| A perfect harmony | J |
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| Musick more loftly swels | I |
| In speeches nobly plac'd | K |
| Beauty as farre excels | I |
| In action aptly grac'd | K |
| A friend each party draws | I |
| To countenance his cause | I |
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| Loue more affected seemes | I |
| To Beauties louely light | F |
| And Wonder more esteemes | I |
| Of Musickes wondrous might | F |
| But both to both so bent | L |
| As both in both are spent | L |
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| Musicke doth witnesse call | M |
| The eare his truth to trie | N |
| Beauty brings to the hall | M |
| Eye iudgement of the eye | N |
| Both in their obiects such | O |
| As no exceptions tutch | O |
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| The common sense which might | F |
| Be arbiter of this | I |
| To be forsooth vpright | F |
| To both sides partiall is | I |
| He layes on this chiefe praise | I |
| Chiefe praise on that he laies | I |
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| Then reason princesse hy | - |
| Whose throne is in the minde | F |
| Which Musicke can in sky | - |
| And hidden beauties finde | F |
| Say whether thou wilt crowne | P |
| With limitlesse renowne | P |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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