Two Pastorals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCBB ACACBB DEDFBB GBGBBB BFBFBB HCHCBB IJKJBB LCMCBB LNLNBB OJOJBB| Made by Sir Philip Sidney upon his meeting with his two worthy friends and fellow poets Sir Edward Dyer and M Fulke Greville | A |
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| Join mates in mirth to me | B |
| Grant pleasure to our meeting | C |
| Let Pan our good god see | B |
| How grateful is our greeting | C |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Ye hymns and singing skill | A |
| Of god Apollo's giving | C |
| Be pressed our reeds to fill | A |
| With sound of music living | C |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Sweet Orpheus' harp whose sound | D |
| The stedfast mountains moved | E |
| Let there thy skill abound | D |
| To join sweet friends beloved | F |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| My two and I be met | G |
| A happy blessed trinity | B |
| As three more jointly set | G |
| In firmest band of unity | B |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Welcome my two to me | B |
| The number best beloved | F |
| Within my heart you be | B |
| In friendship unremoved | F |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Give leave your flocks to range | H |
| Let us the while be playing | C |
| Within the elmy grange | H |
| Your flocks will not be straying | C |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Cause all the mirth you can | I |
| Since I am now come hither | J |
| Who never joy but when | K |
| I am with you together | J |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Like lovers do their love | L |
| So joy I in you seeing | C |
| Let nothing me remove | M |
| From always with you being | C |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| And as the turtle dove | L |
| To mate with whom he liveth | N |
| Such comfort fervent love | L |
| Of you to my heart giveth | N |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | B |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | B |
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| Now joined be our hands | O |
| Let them be ne'er asunder | J |
| But link'd in binding bands | O |
| By metamorphosed wonder | J |
| So should our severed bodies three | B |
| As one for ever joined be | B |
Philip Sidney (sir)
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