A Hue And Cry After Fair Amoret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJK| Fair Amoret is gone astray | A |
| Pursue and seek her ev'ry lover | B |
| I'll tell the signs by which you may | A |
| The wand'ring Shepherdess discover | B |
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| Coquette and coy at once her air | C |
| Both studied tho' both seem neglected | D |
| Careless she is with artful care | C |
| Affecting to seem unaffected | E |
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| With skill her eyes dart ev'ry glance | F |
| Yet change so soon you'd ne'er suspect them | G |
| For she'd persuade they wound by chance | F |
| Tho' certain aim and art direct them | G |
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| She likes herself yet others hates | H |
| For that which in herself she prizes | I |
| And while she laughs at them forgets | J |
| She is the thing hat she despises | K |
William Congreve
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