Dispraise Of A Courtly Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FFGGEE GGHHEE HHIIEE HHJJEE KKLLGG MMNNEE GGOPQQ HHGGEE HHRREE SSGGEE AAMMGG TTGGEEWalking in bright Phoebus' blaze | A |
Where with heat oppressed I was | B |
I got to a shady wood | C |
Where green leaves did newly bud | D |
And of grass was plenty dwelling | E |
Decked with pied flowers sweetly smelling | E |
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In this wood a man I met | F |
On lamenting wholly set | F |
Ruing change of wonted state | G |
Whence he was transformed late | G |
Once to shepherds' God retaining | E |
Now in servile court remaining | E |
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There he wand'ring malecontent | G |
Up and down perplexed went | G |
Daring not to tell to me | H |
Spake unto a senseless tree | H |
One among the rest electing | E |
These same words or this affecting | E |
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My old mates I grieve to see | H |
Void of me in field to be | H |
Where we once our lovely sheep | I |
Lovingly like friends did keep | I |
Oft each other's friendship proving | E |
Never striving but in loving | E |
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But may love abiding be | H |
In poor shepherds' base degree | H |
It belongs to such alone | J |
To whom art of love is known | J |
Seely shepherds are not witting | E |
What in art of love is fitting | E |
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Nay what need the art to those | K |
To whom we our love disclose | K |
It is to be used then | L |
When we do but flatter men | L |
Friendship true in heart assured | G |
Is by Nature's gifts procured | G |
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Therefore shepherds wanting skill | M |
Can Love's duties best fulfil | M |
Since they know not how to feign | N |
Nor with love to cloak disdain | N |
Like the wiser sort whose learning | E |
Hides their inward will of harming | E |
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Well was I while under shade | G |
Oaten reeds me music made | G |
Striving with my mates in song | O |
Mixing mirth our songs among | P |
Greater was the shepherd's treasure | Q |
Than this false fine courtly pleasure | Q |
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Where how many creatures be | H |
So many puffed in mind I see | H |
Like to Juno's birds of pride | G |
Scarce each other can abide | G |
Friends like to black swans appearing | E |
Sooner these than those in hearing | E |
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Therefore Pan if thou may'st be | H |
Made to listen unto me | H |
Grant I say if seely man | R |
May make treaty to god Pan | R |
That I without thy denying | E |
May be still to thee relying | E |
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Only for my two loves' sake | S |
In whose love I pleasure take | S |
Only two do me delight | G |
With their ever pleasing sight | G |
Of all men to thee retaining | E |
Grant me with those two remaining | E |
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So shall I to thee always | A |
With my reeds sound mighty praise | A |
And first lamb that shall befall | M |
Yearly deck thine altar shall | M |
If it please thee to be reflected | G |
And I from thee not rejected | G |
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So I left him in that place | T |
Taking pity on his case | T |
Learning this among the rest | G |
That the mean estate is best | G |
Better filled with contenting | E |
Void of wishing and repenting | E |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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