Translation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDB FGFGHIJI KLMLNOMO PGQGRLSL TUTUVWXW Y ZVZV A2A2B2B2A2 VLVLC2C2D2D2C2| From La Diana de Monte Mayor in Spanish where Sireno a shepherd whose mistress Diana had utterly forsaken him pulling out a little of her hair wrapped about with green silk to the hair he thus bewailed himself | A |
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| What changes here O hair | B |
| I see since I saw you | C |
| How ill fits you this green to wear | B |
| For hope the colour due | C |
| Indeed I well did hope | D |
| Though hope were mixed with fear | E |
| No other shepherd should have scope | D |
| Once to approach this hair | B |
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| Ah hair how many days | F |
| My Dian made me show | G |
| With thousand pretty childish plays | F |
| If I ware you or no | G |
| Alas how oft with tears | H |
| O tears of guileful breast | I |
| She seemed full of jealous fears | J |
| Whereat I did but jest | I |
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| Tell me O hair of gold | K |
| If I then faulty be | L |
| That trust those killing eyes I would | M |
| Since they did warrant me | L |
| Have you not seen her mood | N |
| What streams of tears she spent | O |
| 'Till that I sware my faith so stood | M |
| As her words had it bent | O |
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| Who hath such beauty seen | P |
| In one that changeth so | G |
| Or where one's love so constant been | Q |
| Who ever saw such woe | G |
| Ah hair are you not grieved | R |
| To come from whence you be | L |
| Seeing how once you saw I lived | S |
| To see me as you see | L |
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| On sandy bank of late | T |
| I saw this woman sit | U |
| Where Sooner die than change my state | T |
| She with her finger writ | U |
| Thus my belief was staid | V |
| Behold Love's mighty hand | W |
| On things were by a woman said | X |
| And written in the sand | W |
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| The same Sireno in Monte Mayor holding his mistress's glass before her and looking upon her while she viewed herself thus sang | Y |
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| Of this high grace with bliss conjoined | Z |
| No farther debt on me is laid | V |
| Since that in self same metal coined | Z |
| Sweet lady you remain well paid | V |
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| For if my place give me great pleasure | A2 |
| Having before my nature's treasure | A2 |
| In face and eyes unmatched being | B2 |
| You have the same in my hands seeing | B2 |
| What in your face mine eyes do measure | A2 |
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| Nor think the match unevenly made | V |
| That of those beams in you do tarry | L |
| The glass to you but gives a shade | V |
| To me mine eyes the true shape carry | L |
| For such a thought most highly prized | C2 |
| Which ever hath Love's yoke despised | C2 |
| Better than one captived perceiveth | D2 |
| Though he the lively form receiveth | D2 |
| The other sees it but disguised | C2 |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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