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