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 NNCCIICORYDON | 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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