To Phillis, To Love And Live With Him Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGDHIIJBII KLIIIIMMGGNNOOPPQQRR BBSSBBTTUVIIWXBB| TO PHILLIS TO LOVE AND LIVE WITH HIM | A |
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| Live live with me and thou shalt see | B |
| The pleasures I'll prepare for thee | B |
| What sweets the country can afford | C |
| Shall bless thy bed and bless thy board | C |
| The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed | D |
| With crawling woodbine over spread | D |
| By which the silver shedding streams | E |
| Shall gently melt thee into dreams | E |
| Thy clothing next shall be a gown | F |
| Made of the fleeces' purest down | F |
| The tongues of kids shall be thy meat | G |
| Their milk thy drink and thou shalt eat | G |
| The paste of filberts for thy bread | D |
| With cream of cowslips buttered | H |
| Thy feasting table shall be hills | I |
| With daisies spread and daffadils | I |
| Where thou shalt sit and Red breast by | J |
| For meat shall give thee melody | B |
| I'll give thee chains and carcanets | I |
| Of primroses and violets | I |
| A bag and bottle thou shalt have | K |
| That richly wrought and this as brave | L |
| So that as either shall express | I |
| The wearer's no mean shepherdess | I |
| At shearing times and yearly wakes | I |
| When Themilis his pastime makes | I |
| There thou shalt be and be the wit | M |
| Nay more the feast and grace of it | M |
| On holydays when virgins meet | G |
| To dance the heys with nimble feet | G |
| Thou shalt come forth and then appear | N |
| The Queen of Roses for that year | N |
| And having danced 'bove all the best | O |
| Carry the garland from the rest | O |
| In wicker baskets maids shall bring | P |
| To thee my dearest shepherdling | P |
| The blushing apple bashful pear | Q |
| And shame faced plum all simp'ring there | Q |
| Walk in the groves and thou shalt find | R |
| The name of Phillis in the rind | R |
| Of every straight and smooth skin tree | B |
| Where kissing that I'll twice kiss thee | B |
| To thee a sheep hook I will send | S |
| Be prank'd with ribbands to this end | S |
| This this alluring hook might be | B |
| Less for to catch a sheep than me | B |
| Thou shalt have possets wassails fine | T |
| Not made of ale but spiced wine | T |
| To make thy maids and self free mirth | U |
| All sitting near the glitt'ring hearth | V |
| Thou shalt have ribbands roses rings | I |
| Gloves garters stockings shoes and strings | I |
| Of winning colours that shall move | W |
| Others to lust but me to love | X |
| These nay and more thine own shall be | B |
| If thou wilt love and live with me | B |
Robert Herrick
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