The Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEF GHIJKKEF LDMDNNEF ODPDQQRO| Ye little birds that sit and sing | A |
| Amidst the shady valleys | B |
| And see how Phillis sweetly walks | C |
| Within her garden alleys | B |
| Go pretty birds about her bower | D |
| Sing pretty birds she may not lower | D |
| Ah me methinks I see her frown | E |
| Ye pretty wantons warble | F |
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| Go tell her through your chirping bills | G |
| As you by me are bidden | H |
| To her is only known my love | I |
| Which from the world is hidden | J |
| Go pretty birds and tell her so | K |
| See that your notes strain not too low | K |
| For still methinks I see her frown | E |
| Ye pretty wantons warble | F |
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| Go tune your voices' harmony | L |
| And sing I am her lover | D |
| Strain loud and sweet that every note | M |
| With sweet content may move her | D |
| And she that hath the sweetest voice | N |
| Tell her I will not change my choice | N |
| Yet still methinks I see her frown | E |
| Ye pretty wantons warble | F |
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| O fly make haste see see she falls | O |
| Into a pretty slumber | D |
| Sing round about her rosy bed | P |
| That waking she may wonder | D |
| Say to her 'tis her lover true | Q |
| That sendeth love to you to you | Q |
| And when you hear her kind reply | R |
| Return with pleasant warblings | O |
Thomas Heywood
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