From The Same Idyl (pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH| Mark where the beetling precipice appears | A |
| The toil of the old fisher gray with years | A |
| Mark as to drag the laden net he strains | B |
| The labouring muscle and the swelling veins | B |
| There in the sun the clustered vineyard bends | C |
| And shines empurpled as the morn ascends | C |
| A little boy with idly happy mien | D |
| To guard the grapes upon the ground is seen | D |
| Two wily foxes creeping round appear | E |
| The scrip that holds his morning meal is near | E |
| One breaks the bending vines with longing lip | F |
| And look askance one eyes the tempting scrip | F |
| He plats and plats his rushy net all day | G |
| And makes the vagrant grasshopper his prey | G |
| He plats his net intent with idle care | H |
| Nor heeds how vineyard grape or scrip may fare | H |
William Lisle Bowles
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