To The Tune Of A Neapolitan Villanel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BAAA AAAA BABB CCCCBBDD CCAABBEF CCGHBBII| All my sense thy sweetness gained | A |
| Thy fair hair my heart enchained | A |
| My poor reason thy words moved | A |
| So that thee like heaven I loved | A |
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| Fa la la leridan dan dan dan deridan | B |
| Dan dan dan deridan deridan dei | A |
| While to my mind the outside stood | A |
| For messenger of inward good | A |
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| Nor thy sweetness sour is deemed | A |
| Thy hair not worth a hair esteemed | A |
| Reason hath thy words removed | A |
| Finding that but words they proved | A |
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| Fa la la leridan dan dan dan deridan | B |
| Dan dan dan deridan deridan dei | A |
| For no fair sign can credit win | B |
| If that the substance fail within | B |
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| No more in thy sweetness glory | C |
| For thy knitting hair be sorry | C |
| Use thy words but to bewail thee | C |
| That no more thy beams avail thee | C |
| Dan dan | B |
| Dan dan | B |
| Lay not thy colours more to view | D |
| Without the picture be found true | D |
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| Woe to me alas she weepeth | C |
| Fool in me what folly creepeth | C |
| Was I to blaspheme enraged | A |
| Where my soul I have engaged | A |
| Dan dan | B |
| Dan dan | B |
| And wretched I must yield to this | E |
| The fault I blame her chasteness is | F |
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| Sweetness sweetly pardon folly | C |
| Tie me hair your captive wholly | C |
| Words O words of heavenly knowledge | G |
| Know my words their faults acknowledge | H |
| Dan dan | B |
| Dan dan | B |
| And all my life I will confess | I |
| The less I love I live the less | I |
Sir Philip Sidney
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