Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDE FGFGHHE IJIJHKE LMNMOOE PCPAQQE| No more shall hapless Celia's ears | A |
| Be flattered with the cries | B |
| Of lovers drowned in floods of tears | C |
| Or murdered by her eyes | B |
| No serenades to break her rest | D |
| Nor songs her slumbers to molest | D |
| With my fa la la | E |
| - | |
| The fragrant flowers that once would bloom | F |
| And flourish in her hair | G |
| Since she no longer breathes perfume | F |
| Their odours to repair | G |
| Must fade alas and wither now | H |
| As placed on any common brow | H |
| With my fa la la | E |
| - | |
| Her lip so winning and so meek | I |
| No longer has its charms | J |
| As well she might by whistling seek | I |
| To lure us to her arms | J |
| Affected once 'tis real now | H |
| As her forsaken gums may show | K |
| With my fa la la | E |
| - | |
| The down that on her chin so smooth | L |
| So lovely once appeared | M |
| That too has left her with her youth | N |
| Or sprouts into a beard | M |
| As fields so green when newly sown | O |
| With stubble stiff are overgrown | O |
| With my fa la la | E |
| - | |
| Then Celia leave your apish tricks | P |
| And change your girlish airs | C |
| For ombre snuff and politics | P |
| Those joys that suit your years | A |
| No patches can lost youth recall | Q |
| Nor whitewash prop a tumbling wall | Q |
| With my fa la la | E |
William Cowper
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