The Earth, Late Chok'd With Showers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJLCC| The earth late chok'd with showers | A |
| Is now array'd in green | B |
| Her bosom springs with flowers | A |
| The air dissolves her teen | B |
| The heavens laugh at her glory | C |
| Yet bide I sad and sorry | C |
| - | |
| The woods are deck'd with leaves | D |
| And trees are clothed gay | E |
| And Flora crown'd with sheaves | D |
| With oaken boughs doth play | E |
| Where I am clad in black | F |
| The token of my wrack | F |
| - | |
| The birds upon the trees | G |
| Do sing with pleasant voices | H |
| And chant in their degrees | G |
| Their loves and lucky choices | H |
| When I whilst they are singing | I |
| With sighs mine arms am wringing | I |
| - | |
| The thrushes seek the shade | J |
| And I my fatal grave | K |
| Their flight to heaven is made | J |
| My walk on earth I have | L |
| They freely I thrall they jolly | C |
| I sad and pensive wholly | C |
Thomas Lodge
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