Amaryllis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCC DDECC FFFCC| I care not for these ladies that must be wooed and prayed | A |
| Give me kind Amaryllis the wanton country maid | A |
| Nature Art disdaineth her beauty is her own | B |
| Her when we court and kiss she cries forsooth let go | C |
| But when we come where comfort is she never will say no | C |
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| If I love Amaryllis she gives me fruit and flowers | D |
| But if we love these ladies we must give golden showers | D |
| Give them gold that sell love give me the nut brown lass | E |
| Who when we court and kiss she cries forsooth let go | C |
| But when we come where comfort is she never will say no | C |
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| These ladies must have pillows and beds by strangers wrought | F |
| Give me a bower of willows of moss and leaves unbought | F |
| And fresh Amaryllis with milk and honey fed | F |
| Who when we court and kiss she cries forsooth let go | C |
| But when we come where comfort is she never will say no | C |
Thomas Campion
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