A Pastoral Ballad Iv: Disappointment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHDIDI JFJFKLKLJF JFLMLMNONOPQPQCDCD| Ye shepherds give ear to my lay | A |
| And take no more heed of my sheep | B |
| They have nothing to do but to stray | A |
| I have nothing to do but to weep | B |
| Yet do not my folly reprove | C |
| She was fair and my passion begun | D |
| She smil'd and I could not but love | C |
| She is faithless and I am undone | D |
| Perhaps I was void of all thought | E |
| Perhaps it was plain to foresee | F |
| That a nymph so compleat would be sought | E |
| By a swain more engaging than me | F |
| Ah love ev'ry hope can inspire | G |
| It banishes wisdom the while | H |
| And the lip of the nymph we admire | G |
| Seems for ever adorn'd with a smile | H |
| She is faithless and I am undone | D |
| Ye that witness the woes I endure | I |
| Let reason instruct you to shun | D |
| What it cannot instruct you to cure | I |
| Beware how you loiter in vain | J |
| Amid nymphs of an higher degree | F |
| It is not for me to explain | J |
| How fair and how fickle they be | F |
| Alas from the day that we met | K |
| What hope of an end to my woes | L |
| When I cannot endure to forget | K |
| The glance that undid my repose | L |
| Yet time may diminish the pain | J |
| The flow'r and the shrub and the tree | F |
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| Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain | J |
| In time may have comfort for me | F |
| The sweets of a dew sprinkled rose | L |
| The sound of a murmuring stream | M |
| The peace which from solitude flows | L |
| Henceforth shall be Corydon's theme | M |
| High transports are shewn to the sight | N |
| But we are not to find them our own | O |
| Fate never bestow'd such delight | N |
| As I with my Phyllis had known | O |
| O ye woods spread your branches apace | P |
| To your deepest recesses I fly | Q |
| I would hide with the beasts of the chace | P |
| I would vanish from every eye | Q |
| Yet my reed shall resound thro' the grove | C |
| With the same sad complaint it begun | D |
| How she smil'd and I could not but love | C |
| Was faithless and I am undone | D |
William Shenstone
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