The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII HHBC JJBCIf 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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The 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 |
Thy 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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