Bagatelle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C DDEEFFGG H II C AA H C C AAJJKC H FI C F H F C K H CCAACC C FFAAC H CKJIIJJIICCLLMMGGJ J J I NNCCII| CORYDON | A |
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| A PASTORAL | B |
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| SCENE A roadside in Arcady | C |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| Good sir have you seen pass this way | D |
| A mischief straight from market day | D |
| You'd know her at a glance I think | E |
| Her eyes are blue her lips are pink | E |
| She has a way of looking back | F |
| Over her shoulder and alack | F |
| Who gets that look one time good sir | G |
| Has naught to do but follow her | G |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| I have not seen this maid methinks | I |
| Though she that passed had lips like pinks | I |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| Or like two strawberries made one | A |
| By some sly trick of dew and sun | A |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| A poet | C |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| Nay a simple swain | A |
| That tends his flock on yonder plain | A |
| Naught else I swear by book and bell | J |
| But she that passed you marked her well | J |
| Was she not smooth as any be | K |
| That dwell herein in Arcady | C |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| Her skin was as the satin bark | F |
| Of birches | I |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| Light or dark | F |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| Quite dark | F |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| Then 'twas not she | K |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| The peach's side | C |
| That's next the sun is not so dyed | C |
| As was her cheek Her hair hung down | A |
| Like summer twilight falling brown | A |
| And when the breeze swept by I wist | C |
| Her face was in a sombre mist | C |
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| SHEPHERD | C |
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| No that is not the maid I seek | F |
| HER hair lies gold against the cheek | F |
| Her yellow tresses take the morn | A |
| Like silken tassels of the corn | A |
| And yet brown locks are far from bad | C |
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| PILGRIM | H |
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| Now I bethink me this one had | C |
| A figure like the willow tree | K |
| Which slight and supple wondrously | J |
| Inclines to droop with pensive grace | I |
| And still retains its proper place | I |
| A foot so arched and very small | J |
| The marvel was she walked at all | J |
| Her hand in sooth I lack for words | I |
| Her hand five slender snow white birds | I |
| Her voice though she but said God speed | C |
| Was melody blown through a reed | C |
| The girl Pan changed into a pipe | L |
| Had not a note so full and ripe | L |
| And then her eye my lad her eye | M |
| Discreet inviting candid shy | M |
| An outward ice an inward fire | G |
| And lashes to the heart's desire | G |
| Soft fringes blacker than the sloe | J |
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| SHEPHERD THOUGHTFULLY | J |
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| Good sir which way did THIS one go | J |
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| PILGRIM SOLUS | I |
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| So he is off The silly youth | N |
| Knoweth not Love in sober sooth | N |
| He loves thus lads at first are blind | C |
| No woman only Womankind | C |
| I needs must laugh for by the Mass | I |
| No maid at all did this way pass | I |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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