Nets And Cages.[1] (swedish Air.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD CDABAB EFGFHIHIJ KLKMNOPOJ QRSRGGGG ABAB| Come listen to my story while | A |
| Your needle task you ply | B |
| At what I sing some maids will smile | A |
| While some perhaps may sigh | B |
| Though Love's the theme and Wisdom blames | C |
| Such florid songs as ours | D |
| - | |
| Yet Truth sometimes like eastern dames | C |
| Can speak her thoughts by flowers | D |
| Then listen maids come listen while | A |
| Your needle's task you ply | B |
| At what I sing there's some may smile | A |
| While some perhaps will sigh | B |
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| Young Cloe bent on catching Loves | E |
| Such nets had learned to frame | F |
| That none in all our vales and groves | G |
| E'er caught so much small game | F |
| But gentle Sue less given to roam | H |
| While Cloe's nets were taking | I |
| Such lots of Loves sat still at home | H |
| One little Love cage making | I |
| Come listen maids etc | J |
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| Much Cloe laughed at Susan's task | K |
| But mark how things went on | L |
| These light caught Loves ere you could ask | K |
| Their name and age were gone | M |
| So weak poor Cloe's nets were wove | N |
| That tho' she charm'd into them | O |
| New game each hour the youngest Love | P |
| Was able to break thro' them | O |
| Come listen maids etc | J |
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| Meanwhile young Sue whose cage was wrought | Q |
| Of bars too strong to sever | R |
| One Love with golden pinions caught | S |
| And caged him there for ever | R |
| Instructing thereby all coquettes | G |
| Whate'er their looks or ages | G |
| That tho 'tis pleasant weaving Nets | G |
| 'Tis wiser to make Cages | G |
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| Thus maidens thus do I beguile | A |
| The task your fingers ply | B |
| May all who hear like Susan smile | A |
| And not like Cloe sigh | B |
Thomas Moore
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