Dispraise Of A Courtly Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FFGGEE GGHHEE HHIIEE HHJJEE KKLLGG MMNNEE GGOPQQ HHGGEE HHRREE SSGGEE AAMMGG TTGGEE| Walking in bright Phoebus' blaze | A |
| Where with heat oppressed I was | B |
| I got to a shady wood | C |
| Where green leaves did newly bud | D |
| And of grass was plenty dwelling | E |
| Decked with pied flowers sweetly smelling | E |
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| In this wood a man I met | F |
| On lamenting wholly set | F |
| Ruing change of wonted state | G |
| Whence he was transformed late | G |
| Once to shepherds' God retaining | E |
| Now in servile court remaining | E |
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| There he wand'ring malecontent | G |
| Up and down perplexed went | G |
| Daring not to tell to me | H |
| Spake unto a senseless tree | H |
| One among the rest electing | E |
| These same words or this affecting | E |
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| My old mates I grieve to see | H |
| Void of me in field to be | H |
| Where we once our lovely sheep | I |
| Lovingly like friends did keep | I |
| Oft each other's friendship proving | E |
| Never striving but in loving | E |
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| But may love abiding be | H |
| In poor shepherds' base degree | H |
| It belongs to such alone | J |
| To whom art of love is known | J |
| Seely shepherds are not witting | E |
| What in art of love is fitting | E |
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| Nay what need the art to those | K |
| To whom we our love disclose | K |
| It is to be used then | L |
| When we do but flatter men | L |
| Friendship true in heart assured | G |
| Is by Nature's gifts procured | G |
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| Therefore shepherds wanting skill | M |
| Can Love's duties best fulfil | M |
| Since they know not how to feign | N |
| Nor with love to cloak disdain | N |
| Like the wiser sort whose learning | E |
| Hides their inward will of harming | E |
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| Well was I while under shade | G |
| Oaten reeds me music made | G |
| Striving with my mates in song | O |
| Mixing mirth our songs among | P |
| Greater was the shepherd's treasure | Q |
| Than this false fine courtly pleasure | Q |
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| Where how many creatures be | H |
| So many puffed in mind I see | H |
| Like to Juno's birds of pride | G |
| Scarce each other can abide | G |
| Friends like to black swans appearing | E |
| Sooner these than those in hearing | E |
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| Therefore Pan if thou may'st be | H |
| Made to listen unto me | H |
| Grant I say if seely man | R |
| May make treaty to god Pan | R |
| That I without thy denying | E |
| May be still to thee relying | E |
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| Only for my two loves' sake | S |
| In whose love I pleasure take | S |
| Only two do me delight | G |
| With their ever pleasing sight | G |
| Of all men to thee retaining | E |
| Grant me with those two remaining | E |
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| So shall I to thee always | A |
| With my reeds sound mighty praise | A |
| And first lamb that shall befall | M |
| Yearly deck thine altar shall | M |
| If it please thee to be reflected | G |
| And I from thee not rejected | G |
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| So I left him in that place | T |
| Taking pity on his case | T |
| Learning this among the rest | G |
| That the mean estate is best | G |
| Better filled with contenting | E |
| Void of wishing and repenting | E |
Sir Philip Sidney
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