The Knotting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFCC GHGICC JEKECC| Hears not my Phyllis how the birds | A |
| Their feathered mates salute | B |
| They tell their passion in their words | A |
| Must I alone be mute | B |
| Phyllis without frown or smile | C |
| Sat and knotted all the while | C |
| - | |
| The god of love in thy bright eyes | D |
| Does like a tyrant reign | E |
| But in thy heart a child he lies | D |
| Without his dart of flame | F |
| Phyllis without frown or smile | C |
| Sat and knotted all the while | C |
| - | |
| So many months in silence past | G |
| And yet in raging love | H |
| Might well deserve one word at last | G |
| My passion should approve | I |
| Phyllis without frown or smile | C |
| Sat and knotted all the while | C |
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| Must then your faithful swain expire | J |
| And not one look obtain | E |
| Which he to soothe his fond desire | K |
| Might pleasingly explain | E |
| Phyllis without frown or smile | C |
| Sat and knotted all the while | C |
Sir Charles Sedley
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