A Pleasant Grove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKKL LMNOPQEKKRRSSTTUVWWX X TUnto a pleasant grove or such like place | A |
Where here the curious cutting of a hedge | B |
There by a pond the trimming of the sedge | B |
Here the fine setting of well shading trees | C |
The walks there mounting up by small degrees | C |
The gravel and the green so equal lie | D |
It with the rest draws on your ling'ring eye | D |
Here the sweet smells that do perfume the air | E |
Arising from the infinite repair | E |
Of odoriferous buds and herbs of price | F |
As if it were another Paradise | F |
So please the smelling sense that you are fain | G |
Where last you walk'd to turn and walk again | H |
There the small birds with their harmonious notes | I |
Sing to a spring that smileth as she floats | I |
For in her face a many dimples show | J |
And often skips as it did dancing go | J |
Here further down an over arched alley | K |
That from a hill goes winding in a valley | K |
You spy at end thereof a standing lake | L |
Where some ingenious artist strives to make | L |
The water brought in turning pipes of lead | M |
Through birds of earth most lively fashioned | N |
To counterfeit and mock the sylvans all | O |
In singing well their own set madrigal | P |
This with no small delight retains your ear | Q |
And makes you think none blest but who live there | E |
Then in another place the fruits that be | K |
In gallant clusters decking each good tree | K |
Invite your hand to crop some from the stem | R |
And liking one taste every sort of them | R |
Then to the arbours walk then to the bowers | S |
Thence to the walks again thence to the flowers | S |
Then to birds and to the clear spring thence | T |
Now pleasing one and then another sense | T |
Here one walks oft and yet anew begin'th | U |
As if it were some hidden labyrinth | V |
So loath to part and so content to stay | W |
That when the gard'ner knocks for you away | W |
It grieves you so to leave the pleasures in it | X |
That you could wish that you had never seen it | X |
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From Britannia's Pastorals | T |
William Browne
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