A Bucolic Betwixt Two: Lacon & Thyrsis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBBCCC AAADD EEFGGGHHHAAAIIIJJJKK K LLMMNO OO| LACON For a kiss or two confess | A |
| What doth cause this pensiveness | A |
| Thou most lovely neat herdess | A |
| Why so lonely on the hill | B |
| Why thy pipe by thee so still | B |
| That erewhile was heard so shrill | B |
| Tell me do thy kine now fail | C |
| To fulfil the milking pail | C |
| Say what is't that thou dost ail | C |
| - | |
| THYR None of these but out alas | A |
| A mischance is come to pass | A |
| And I'll tell thee what it was | A |
| See mine eyes are weeping ripe | D |
| LACON Tell and I'll lay down my pipe | D |
| - | |
| THYR I have lost my lovely steer | E |
| That to me was far more dear | E |
| Than these kine which I milk here | F |
| Broad of forehead large of eye | G |
| Party colour'd like a pye | G |
| Smooth in each limb as a die | G |
| Clear of hoof and clear of horn | H |
| Sharply pointed as a thorn | H |
| With a neck by yoke unworn | H |
| From the which hung down by strings | A |
| Balls of cowslips daisy rings | A |
| Interplaced with ribbonings | A |
| Faultless every way for shape | I |
| Not a straw could him escape | I |
| Ever gamesome as an ape | I |
| But yet harmless as a sheep | J |
| Pardon Lacon if I weep | J |
| Tears will spring where woes are deep | J |
| Now ai me ai me Last night | K |
| Came a mad dog and did bite | K |
| Ay and kill'd my dear delight | K |
| - | |
| LACON Alack for grief | L |
| THYR But I'll be brief | L |
| Hence I must for time doth call | M |
| Me and my sad playmates all | M |
| To his evening funeral | N |
| Live long Lacon so adieu | O |
| - | |
| LACON Mournful maid farewell to you | O |
| Earth afford ye flowers to strew | O |
Robert Herrick
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