Nancy Of The Vale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADAD EFEG BHBH IJIJ DKDK LMLM NONA PQRQ STST KUKU VWV XOXO YZF| The western sky was purpled o'er | A |
| With every pleasing ray | B |
| And flocks reviving felt no more | C |
| The sultry heats of day | B |
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| When from an hazel's artless bower | A |
| Soft warbled Strephon's tongue | D |
| He blest the scene he blest the hour | A |
| While Nancy's praise he sung | D |
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| 'Let fops with fickle falsehood range | E |
| The paths of wanton love | F |
| While weeping maids lament their change | E |
| And sadden every grove | G |
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| 'But endless blessings crown the day | B |
| I saw fair Esham's dale | H |
| And every blessing find its way | B |
| To Nancy of the Vale | H |
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| ''Twas from Avona's banks the maid | I |
| Diffused her lovely beams | J |
| And every shining glance display'd | I |
| The Naiad of the streams | J |
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| 'Soft as the wild duck's tender young | D |
| That float on Avon's tide | K |
| Bright as the water lily sprung | D |
| And glittering near its side | K |
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| 'Fresh as the bordering flowers her bloom | L |
| Her eye all mild to view | M |
| The little halcyon's azure plume | L |
| Was never half so blue | M |
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| 'Her shape was like the reed so sleek | N |
| So taper strait and fair | O |
| Her dimpled smile her blushing cheek | N |
| How charming sweet they were | A |
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| 'Far in the winding vale retired | P |
| This peerless bud I found | Q |
| And shadowing rocks and woods conspired | R |
| To fence her beauties round | Q |
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| 'That Nature in so lone a dell | S |
| Should form a nymph so sweet | T |
| Or Fortune to her secret cell | S |
| Conduct my wandering feet | T |
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| 'Gay lordlings sought her for their bride | K |
| But she would ne'er incline | U |
| 'Prove to your equals true ' she cried | K |
| 'As I will prove to mine | U |
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| ''Tis Strephon on the mountain's brow | V |
| Has won my right good will | W |
| To him I gave my plighted vow | V |
| With him I'll climb the hill ' | - |
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| 'Struck with her charms and gentle truth | X |
| I clasp'd the constant fair | O |
| To her alone I gave my youth | X |
| And vow my future care | O |
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| 'And when this vow shall faithless prove | Y |
| Or I those charms forego | Z |
| The stream that saw our tender love | F |
| That stream shall cease to flow ' | - |
William Shenstone
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