Elegy Vi. To A Lady, On The Language Of Birds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ DKDL MCMN GOGO PQRQ STS| Come then Dione let us range the grove | A |
| The science of the feather'd choirs explore | B |
| Hear linnets argue larks descant of love | C |
| And blame the gloom of solitude no more | B |
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| My doubt subsides 'tis no Italian song | D |
| Nor senseless ditty cheers the vernal tree | E |
| Ah who that hears Dione's tuneful tongue | F |
| Shall doubt that music may with sense agree | E |
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| And come my Muse that lov'st the sylvan shade | G |
| Evolve the mazes and the mist dispel | H |
| Translate the song convince my doubting maid | G |
| No solemn dervise can explain so well | H |
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| Pensive beneath the twilight shades I sate | I |
| The slave of hopeless vows and cold disdain | J |
| When Philomel address'd his mournful mate | I |
| And thus I construed the mellifluent strain | J |
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| 'Sing on my bird the liquid notes prolong | D |
| At every note a lover sheds his tear | K |
| Sing on my bird 'tis Damon hears thy song | D |
| Nor doubt to gain applause when lovers hear | L |
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| 'He the sad source of our complaining knows | M |
| A foe to Tereus and to lawless love | C |
| He mourns the story of our ancient woes | M |
| Ah could our music his complaints remove | N |
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| 'Yon plains are govern'd by a peerless maid | G |
| And see pale Cynthia mounts the vaulted sky | O |
| A train of lovers court the chequer'd shade | G |
| Sing on my bird and hear thy mate's reply | O |
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| 'Erewhile no shepherd to these woods retired | P |
| No lover bless'd the glow worm's pallid ray | Q |
| But ill starr'd birds that listening not admired | R |
| Or listening envied our superior lay | Q |
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| 'Cheer'd by the sun the vassals of his power | S |
| Let such by day unite their jarring strains | T |
| But let us choose the calm the silent hour | S |
| Nor want fit audience while Dione reigns ' | - |
William Shenstone
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