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 KKUttered in a Pastoral Show at Wilton | A |
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WILL Dick since we cannot dance come let a cheerful voice | B |
Show that we do not grudge at all when others do rejoice | B |
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DICK Ah Will though I grudge not I count it feeble glee | C |
With sight made dim with daily tears another's sport to see | C |
Whoever lambkins saw yet lambkins love to play | D |
To play when that their loved dams are stolen or gone astray | D |
If this in them be true as true in men think I | E |
A lustless song forsooth thinks he that hath more lust to cry | E |
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WILL A time there is for all my mother often says | F |
When she with skirts tucked very high with girls at football plays | G |
When thou hast mind to weep seek out some smoky room | H |
Now let those lightsome sights we see thy darkness overcome | I |
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DICK What joy the joyful sun gives unto bleared eyes | J |
That comfort in these sports you like my mind his comfort tries | J |
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WILL What Is thy bagpipe broke or are thy lambs miswent | K |
Thy wallet or thy tar box lost or thy new raiment rent | K |
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DICK I would it were but thus for thus it were too well | L |
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WILL Thou see'st my ears do itch at it good Dick thy sorrow | M |
tell | L |
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DICK Hear then and learn to sigh a mistress I do serve | N |
Whose wages make me beg the more who feeds me till I starve | O |
Whose livery is such as most I freeze apparelled most | K |
And looks so near unto my cure that I must needs be lost | K |
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WILL What These are riddles sure art thou then bound to her | P |
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DICK Bound as I neither power have nor would have power to stir | P |
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WILL Who bound thee | C |
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DICK Love my lord | K |
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WILL What witnesses thereto | K |
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DICK Faith in myself and Worth in her which no proof can undo | K |
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WILL What seal | Q |
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DICK My heart deep graven | A |
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WILL Who made the band so fast | K |
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DICK Wonder that by two so black eyes the glitt'ring stars be | C |
past | K |
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WILL What keepeth safe thy band | K |
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DICK Remembrance is the chest | K |
Lock'd fast with knowing that she is of worldly things the best | K |
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WILL Thou late of wages plain'dst what wages may'sh thou have | R |
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DICK Her heavenly looks which more and more do give me cause to | K |
crave | S |
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WILL If wages make you want what food is that she gives | T |
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DICK Tear's drink sorrow's meat wherewith not I but in me my | E |
death lives | T |
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WILL What living get you then | U |
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DICK Disdain but just disdain | V |
So have I cause myself to plain but no cause to complain | V |
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WILL What care takes she for thee | C |
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DICK Her care is to prevent | K |
My freedom with show of her beams with virtue my content | K |
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WILL God shield us from such dames If so our dames be sped | K |
The shepherds will grow lean I trow their sheep will be ill fed | K |
But Dick my counsel mark run from the place of woo | K |
The arrow being shot from far doth give the smaller blow | M |
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DICK Good Will I cannot take thy good advice before | W |
That foxes leave to steal they find they die therefore | W |
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WILL Then Dick let us go hence lest we great folks annoy | X |
For nothing can more tedious be than plaint in time of joy | X |
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DICK Oh hence O cruel word which even dogs do hate | K |
But hence even hence I must needs go such is my dogged fate | K |
Sir Philip Sidney
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