Coridon To His Phillis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDEE FGFGDD GHGHGG GCGCGG C| Alas my hart mine eye hath wrong d thee | A |
| Presumptious eye to gaze on Phillis face | B |
| Whose heavenly eye no mortall man may see | A |
| But he must die or purchase Phillis grace | B |
| Poor Coridon the Nimph whose eye doth moove thee | A |
| Dooth love to draw but is not drawne to love thee | A |
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| Her beautie Nature's pride and sheepheards praise | C |
| Her eye the heavenly Planet of my life | D |
| Her matchlesse wit and grace her fame displaies | C |
| As if that love had made her for his wife | D |
| Onely her eyes shoote fierie darts to kill | E |
| Yet is her hart as cold as Caucase hill | E |
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| My wings too weake to flye against the Sunne | F |
| Mine eyes unable to sustaine her light | G |
| My hart doth yeeld that I am quite undone | F |
| Thus hath faire Phillis slaine me with her sight | G |
| My bud is blasted withred is my leafe | D |
| And all my corne is rotted in the sheafe | D |
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| Phillis the golden fetter of my minde | G |
| My fancie's Idoll and my vitall power | H |
| Goddesse of Nimphs and honour of thy kinde | G |
| This Age's Phoenix Beautie's richest bower | H |
| Poore Coridon for love of thee must die | G |
| Thy beautie's thrall and conquest of thine eye | G |
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| Leave Coridon to plough the barren field | G |
| Thy buds of hope are blasted with disgrace | C |
| For Phillis' lookes no harty love doo yeeld | G |
| Nor can she love for all her lovely face | C |
| Die Coridon the spoile of Phillis' eye | G |
| She cannot love and therefore thou must die | G |
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| Finis | C |
Sir Edward Dyer
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