When Orpheus Sweetly Did Complayne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBA CCCBBC BBBDDB EFGHHG| When Orpheus sweetly did complayne | A |
| Upon his lute with heavy strayne | A |
| How his Euridice was slayne | A |
| The trees to heare | B |
| Obtayn'd an eare | B |
| And after left it off againe | A |
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| At every stroake and every stay | C |
| The boughs kept time and nodding lay | C |
| And listened bending all one way | C |
| The aspen tree | B |
| As well as hee | B |
| Began to shake and learn'd to play | C |
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| If wood could speake a tree might heare | B |
| If wood could sound true greife so neare | B |
| A tree might dropp an amber teare | B |
| If wood so well | D |
| Could ring a knell | D |
| The Cipres might condole the beare | B |
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| The standing nobles of the grove | E |
| Hearing dead wood so speak and move | F |
| The fatall axe beganne to love | G |
| They envyde death | H |
| That gave such breath | H |
| As men alive doe saints above | G |
William Strode
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