Two Pastorals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDEDD CECEDD FGFHDD IDIDDD DHDHDD JEJEDD KLMLDD NEOEDD NPNPDD QLQLDD| Made by Sir Philip Sidney upon his meeting with his two | A |
| worthy friends and fellow poets Sir Edward Dyer and M | B |
| Fulke Greville | C |
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| Join mates in mirth to me | D |
| Grant pleasure to our meeting | E |
| Let Pan our good god see | D |
| How grateful is our greeting | E |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Ye hymns and singing skill | C |
| Of god Apollo's giving | E |
| Be pressed our reeds to fill | C |
| With sound of music living | E |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Sweet Orpheus' harp whose sound | F |
| The stedfast mountains moved | G |
| Let there thy skill abound | F |
| To join sweet friends beloved | H |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| My two and I be met | I |
| A happy blessed trinity | D |
| As three more jointly set | I |
| In firmest band of unity | D |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Welcome my two to me | D |
| The number best beloved | H |
| Within my heart you be | D |
| In friendship unremoved | H |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Give leave your flocks to range | J |
| Let us the while be playing | E |
| Within the elmy grange | J |
| Your flocks will not be straying | E |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Cause all the mirth you can | K |
| Since I am now come hither | L |
| Who never joy but when | M |
| I am with you together | L |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Like lovers do their love | N |
| So joy I in you seeing | E |
| Let nothing me remove | O |
| From always with you being | E |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| And as the turtle dove | N |
| To mate with whom he liveth | P |
| Such comfort fervent love | N |
| Of you to my heart giveth | P |
| Join hearts and hands so let it be | D |
| Make but one mind in bodies three | D |
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| Now joined be our hands | Q |
| Let them be ne'er asunder | L |
| But link'd in binding bands | Q |
| By metamorphosed wonder | L |
| So should our severed bodies three | D |
| As one for ever joined be | D |
Sir Philip Sidney
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