A Pastoral Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGHIJIJ KLKLCMCM NONPQRQR STSTUVUV ALALWSWSYe shepherds so cheerful and gay | A |
Whose flocks never carelessly roam | B |
Should Corydon's happen to stray | A |
Oh call the poor wanderers home | B |
Allow me to muse and to sigh | C |
Nor talk of the change that ye find | D |
None once was so watchful as I | C |
I have left my dear Phillis behind | D |
Now I know what it is to have strove | E |
With the torture of doubt and desire | F |
What it is to admire and to love | G |
And to leave her we love and admire | H |
Ah lead forth my flock in the morn | I |
And the damps of each evening repel | J |
Alas I am faint and forlorn | I |
I have bade my dear Phillis farewell | J |
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Since Phillis vouchsaf'd me a look | K |
I never once dreamed of my vine | L |
May I lose both my pipe and my crook | K |
If I knew of a kid that was mine | L |
I priz'd every hour that went by | C |
Beyond all that had pleas'd me before | M |
But now they are past and I sigh | C |
And I grieve that I priz'd them no more | M |
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But why do I languish in vain | N |
Why wander thus pensively here | O |
Oh why did I come from the plain | N |
Where I fed on the smiles of my dear | P |
They tell me my favourite maid | Q |
The pride of that valley is flown | R |
Alas where with her I have stray'd | Q |
I could wander with pleasure alone | R |
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When forc'd the fair nymph to forgo | S |
What anguish I felt at my heart | T |
Yet I thought but it might not be so | S |
'Twas with pain that she saw me depart | T |
She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew | U |
My path I could hardly discern | V |
So sweetly she bade me adieu | U |
I thought that she bade me return | V |
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The pilgrim that journeys all day | A |
To visit some far distant shrine | L |
If he bear but a relique away | A |
Is happy nor heard to repine | L |
Thus widely remov'd from the fair | W |
Where my vows my devotion I owe | S |
Soft hope is the relique I bear | W |
And my solace wherever I go | S |
William Shenstone
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