Ecologue Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSCT UVWXYZA2B2C2WD2E2F2A 2G2WH2I2SJ2K2L2M2N2 WO2P2Q2WQ2K2WR2WS2T2 WU2V2W2X2WY2D2W2WZ2Y 2A3W2WW2A2B3C3D3E3WW 2A2F3W2X2G3H3WW| ALEXIS | A |
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| The shepherd Corydon with love was fired | B |
| For fair Alexis his own master's joy | C |
| No room for hope had he yet none the less | D |
| The thick leaved shadowy soaring beech tree grove | E |
| Still would he haunt and there alone as thus | F |
| To woods and hills pour forth his artless strains | G |
| 'Cruel Alexis heed you naught my songs | H |
| Have you no pity you'll drive me to my death | I |
| Now even the cattle court the cooling shade | J |
| And the green lizard hides him in the thorn | K |
| Now for tired mowers with the fierce heat spent | L |
| Pounds Thestilis her mess of savoury herbs | M |
| Wild thyme and garlic I with none beside | N |
| Save hoarse cicalas shrilling through the brake | O |
| Still track your footprints 'neath the broiling sun | P |
| Better have borne the petulant proud disdain | Q |
| Of Amaryllis or Menalcas wooed | R |
| Albeit he was so dark and you so fair | S |
| Trust not too much to colour beauteous boy | C |
| White privets fall dark hyacinths are culled | T |
| You scorn me Alexis who or what I am | U |
| Care not to ask how rich in flocks or how | V |
| In snow white milk abounding yet for me | W |
| Roam on Sicilian hills a thousand lambs | X |
| Summer or winter still my milk pails brim | Y |
| I sing as erst Amphion of Circe sang | Z |
| What time he went to call his cattle home | A2 |
| On Attic Aracynthus Nor am I | B2 |
| So ill to look on lately on the beach | C2 |
| I saw myself when winds had stilled the sea | W |
| And if that mirror lie not would not fear | D2 |
| Daphnis to challenge though yourself were judge | E2 |
| Ah were you but content with me to dwell | F2 |
| Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home | A2 |
| Shoot down the stags or with green osier wand | G2 |
| Round up the straggling flock There you with me | W |
| In silvan strains will learn to rival Pan | H2 |
| Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join | I2 |
| For sheep alike and shepherd Pan hath care | S |
| Nor with the reed's edge fear you to make rough | J2 |
| Your dainty lip such arts as these to learn | K2 |
| What did Amyntas do what did he not | L2 |
| A pipe have I of hemlock stalks compact | M2 |
| In lessening lengths Damoetas' dying gift | N2 |
| 'Mine once ' quoth he 'now yours as heir to own ' | - |
| Foolish Amyntas heard and envied me | W |
| Ay and two fawns I risked my neck to find | O2 |
| In a steep glen with coats white dappled still | P2 |
| From a sheep's udders suckled twice a day | Q2 |
| These still I keep for you which Thestilis | W |
| Implores me oft to let her lead away | Q2 |
| And she shall have them since my gifts you spurn | K2 |
| Come hither beauteous boy for you the Nymphs | W |
| Bring baskets see with lilies brimmed for you | R2 |
| Plucking pale violets and poppy heads | W |
| Now the fair Naiad of narcissus flower | S2 |
| And fragrant fennel doth one posy twine | T2 |
| With cassia then and other scented herbs | W |
| Blends them and sets the tender hyacinth off | U2 |
| With yellow marigold I too will pick | V2 |
| Quinces all silvered o'er with hoary down | W2 |
| Chestnuts which Amaryllis wont to love | X2 |
| And waxen plums withal this fruit no less | W |
| Shall have its meed of honour and I will pluck | Y2 |
| You too ye laurels and you ye myrtles near | D2 |
| For so your sweets ye mingle Corydon | W2 |
| You are a boor nor heeds a whit your gifts | W |
| Alexis no nor would Iollas yield | Z2 |
| Should gifts decide the day Alack alack | Y2 |
| What misery have I brought upon my head | A3 |
| Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane | W2 |
| And the wild boar upon my crystal springs | W |
| Whom do you fly infatuate gods ere now | W2 |
| And Dardan Paris have made the woods their home | A2 |
| Let Pallas keep the towers her hand hath built | B3 |
| Us before all things let the woods delight | C3 |
| The grim eyed lioness pursues the wolf | D3 |
| The wolf the she goat the she goat herself | E3 |
| In wanton sport the flowering cytisus | W |
| And Corydon Alexis each led on | W2 |
| By their own longing See the ox comes home | A2 |
| With plough up tilted and the shadows grow | F3 |
| To twice their length with the departing sun | W2 |
| Yet me love burns for who can limit love | X2 |
| Ah Corydon Corydon what hath crazed your wit | G3 |
| Your vine half pruned hangs on the leafy elm | H3 |
| Why haste you not to weave what need requires | W |
| Of pliant rush or osier Scorned by this | W |
| Elsewhere some new Alexis you will find ' | - |
Virgil
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