The Nymph-s Reply To The Shepherd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII HHBC JJBC| If all the world and love were young | A |
| And truth in every Shepherd s tongue | A |
| These pretty pleasures might me move | B |
| To live with thee and be thy love | C |
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| Time drives the flocks from field to fold | D |
| When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold | D |
| And Philomel becometh dumb | E |
| The rest complains of cares to come | E |
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| The flowers do fade and wanton fields | F |
| To wayward winter reckoning yields | F |
| A honey tongue a heart of gall | G |
| Is fancy s spring but sorrow s fall | G |
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| Thy gowns thy shoes thy beds of Roses | H |
| Thy cap thy kirtle and thy posies | H |
| Soon break soon wither soon forgotten | I |
| In folly ripe in reason rotten | I |
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| Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds | H |
| The Coral clasps and amber studs | H |
| All these in me no means can move | B |
| To come to thee and be thy love | C |
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| But could youth last and love still breed | J |
| Had joys no date nor age no need | J |
| Then these delights my mind might move | B |
| To live with thee and be thy love | C |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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