Eclogue The Third Abra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFFGH IICCJJKKLL MNCCOPFFQQ REFFOPEDSS TTBBUUNNOPKKVWXXOPGG YYZZA2A2LL OP| SCENE a forest TIME the Evening | A |
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| In Georgia's land where Tefflis' towers are seen | B |
| In distant view along the level green | B |
| While evening dews enrich the glittering glade | C |
| And the tall forests cast a longer shade | C |
| Amidst the maids of Zagen's peaceful grove | D |
| Emyra sung the pleasing cares of love | E |
| Of Abra first began the tender strain | F |
| Who led her youth with flocks upon the plain | F |
| At morn she came those willing flocks to lead | G |
| Where lilies rear them in the watery mead | H |
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| From early dawn the livelong hours she told | I |
| Till late at silent ev'n she penned the fold | I |
| Deep in the grove beneath the secret shade | C |
| A various wreath of odorous flowers she made | C |
| Gay motleyed pinks and sweet jonquils she chose | J |
| The violet blue that on the moss bank grows | J |
| All sweet to sense the flaunting rose was there | K |
| The finished chaplet well adorned her hair | K |
| Great Abbas chanced that fated morn to stray | L |
| By love conducted from the chase away | L |
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| Among the vocal vales he heard her song | M |
| And sought the vales and echoing groves among | N |
| At length he found and wooed the rural maid | C |
| She knew the monarch and with fear obeyed | C |
| Be every youth like royal Abbas moved | O |
| And every Georgian maid like Abra loved | P |
| The royal lover bore her from the plain | F |
| Yet still her crook and bleating flock remain | F |
| Oft as she went she backward turned her view | Q |
| And bade that crook and bleating flock adieu | Q |
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| Fair happy maid to other scenes remove | R |
| To richer scenes of golden power and love | E |
| Go leave the simple pipe and shepherd's strain | F |
| With love delight thee and with Abbas reign | F |
| Be every youth like royal Abbas moved | O |
| And every Georgian maid like Abra loved | P |
| Yet midst the blaze of courts she fixed her love | E |
| On the cool fountain or the shady grove | D |
| Still with the shepherd's innocence her mind | S |
| To the sweet vale and flowery mead inclined | S |
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| And oft as spring renewed the plains with flowers | T |
| Breathed his soft gales and led the fragrant hours | T |
| With sure return she sought the sylvan scene | B |
| The breezy mountains and the forests green | B |
| Her maids around her moved a duteous band | U |
| Each bore a crook all rural in her hand | U |
| Some simple lay of flocks and herds they sung | N |
| With joy the mountain and the forest rung | N |
| Be every youth like royal Abbas moved | O |
| And every Georgian maid like Abra loved | P |
| And oft the royal lover left the care | K |
| And thorns of state attendant on the fair | K |
| Oft to the shades and low roofed cots retired | V |
| Or sought the vale where first his heart was fired | W |
| A russet mantle like a swain he wore | X |
| And thought of crowns and busy courts no more | X |
| Be every youth like royal Abbas moved | O |
| And every Georgian maid like Abra loved | P |
| Blest was the life that royal Abbas led | G |
| Sweet was his love and innocent his bed | G |
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| What if in wealth the noble maid excel | Y |
| The simple shepherd girl can love as well | Y |
| Let those who rule on Persia's jewelled throne | Z |
| Be famed for love and gentlest love alone | Z |
| Or wreathe like Abbas full of fair renown | A2 |
| The lover's myrtle with the warrior's crown | A2 |
| Oh happy days the maids around her say | L |
| Oh haste profuse of blessings haste away | L |
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| Be every youth like royal Abbas moved | O |
| And every Georgian maid like Abra loved | P |
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