On Westwell Downes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE FGCHGGII GDGDGGAA JGJGDDBB| When Westwell Downes I gan to tread | A |
| Where cleanely wynds the greene did sweepe | B |
| Methought a landskipp there was spread | A |
| Here a bush and there a sheepe | B |
| The pleated wrinkles of the face | C |
| Of wave swolne earth did lend such grace | C |
| As shadowings in Imag'ry | D |
| Which both deceive and please the eye | E |
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| The sheepe sometymes did tread the maze | F |
| By often wynding in and in | G |
| And sometymes round about they trace | C |
| Which milkmayds call a Fairie ring | H |
| Such semicircles have they runne | G |
| Such lynes acrosse so trymly spunne | G |
| That sheppeards learne whenere they please | I |
| A new Geometry with ease | I |
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| The slender food upon the downe | G |
| Is allwayes even allwayes bare | D |
| Which neither spring nor winter's frowne | G |
| Can ought improve or ought impayre | D |
| Such is the barren Eunuches chynne | G |
| Which thus doth evermore begynne | G |
| With tender downe to be orecast | A |
| Which never comes to haire at last | A |
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| Here and there twoe hilly crests | J |
| Amiddst them hugg a pleasant greene | G |
| And these are like twoe swelling breasts | J |
| That close a tender fall betweene | G |
| Here would I sleepe or read or pray | D |
| From early morne till flight of day | D |
| But harke a sheepe bell calls mee upp | B |
| Like Oxford colledge bells to supp | B |
William Strode
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