A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BB CCDDEE FGHI JJ KK L ML NOKK P P C K K K Q A K CK K KK R KS T ET U VV C KK KKKM WW XX KK

Uttered in a Pastoral Show at WiltonA
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WILL Dick since we cannot dance come let a cheerful voiceB
Show that we do not grudge at all when others do rejoiceB
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DICK Ah Will though I grudge not I count it feeble gleeC
With sight made dim with daily tears another's sport to seeC
Whoever lambkins saw yet lambkins love to playD
To play when that their loved dams are stolen or gone astrayD
If this in them be true as true in men think IE
A lustless song forsooth thinks he that hath more lust to cryE
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WILL A time there is for all my mother often saysF
When she with skirts tucked very high with girls at football playsG
When thou hast mind to weep seek out some smoky roomH
Now let those lightsome sights we see thy darkness overcomeI
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DICK What joy the joyful sun gives unto bleared eyesJ
That comfort in these sports you like my mind his comfort triesJ
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WILL What Is thy bagpipe broke or are thy lambs miswentK
Thy wallet or thy tar box lost or thy new raiment rentK
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DICK I would it were but thus for thus it were too wellL
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WILL Thou see'st my ears do itch at it good Dick thy sorrowM
tellL
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DICK Hear then and learn to sigh a mistress I do serveN
Whose wages make me beg the more who feeds me till I starveO
Whose livery is such as most I freeze apparelled mostK
And looks so near unto my cure that I must needs be lostK
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WILL What These are riddles sure art thou then bound to herP
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DICK Bound as I neither power have nor would have power to stirP
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WILL Who bound theeC
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DICK Love my lordK
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WILL What witnesses theretoK
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DICK Faith in myself and Worth in her which no proof can undoK
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WILL What sealQ
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DICK My heart deep gravenA
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WILL Who made the band so fastK
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DICK Wonder that by two so black eyes the glitt'ring stars beC
pastK
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WILL What keepeth safe thy bandK
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DICK Remembrance is the chestK
Lock'd fast with knowing that she is of worldly things the bestK
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WILL Thou late of wages plain'dst what wages may'sh thou haveR
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DICK Her heavenly looks which more and more do give me cause toK
craveS
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WILL If wages make you want what food is that she givesT
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DICK Tear's drink sorrow's meat wherewith not I but in me myE
death livesT
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WILL What living get you thenU
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DICK Disdain but just disdainV
So have I cause myself to plain but no cause to complainV
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WILL What care takes she for theeC
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DICK Her care is to preventK
My freedom with show of her beams with virtue my contentK
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WILL God shield us from such dames If so our dames be spedK
The shepherds will grow lean I trow their sheep will be ill fedK
But Dick my counsel mark run from the place of wooK
The arrow being shot from far doth give the smaller blowM
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DICK Good Will I cannot take thy good advice beforeW
That foxes leave to steal they find they die thereforeW
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WILL Then Dick let us go hence lest we great folks annoyX
For nothing can more tedious be than plaint in time of joyX
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DICK Oh hence O cruel word which even dogs do hateK
But hence even hence I must needs go such is my dogged fateK

Sir Philip Sidney



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