This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Out great redemption from above did bring, For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a oeroetual peace.
He was found by the Bureau of Statics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint.
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped pver the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the cello. The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed, To see such sport. And the dish ran away with the knife.
Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood, Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her.
Robert Herrick(1951-1674)
もしrhymeが行末以外の場所に登場していたら、 それは Internal Rhyme だ。 下のSamuel Taylor Coleridgeの詩では、一行目と三行目にInternal Rhyme があるよ。
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Intp that silent sea.
Lord Byronはrhymeの達人だ。 彼のDon Juanという叙事詩では、FeminineRhymeを、わざとアホみたいな長さにしているよ。
Sagest of women, even of windows, she Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, And worthy of the noblest pedigree, (His Sire was of Castile, his Dam from Aragon): Them for accomplishments of chivalry, In case our Lord the King should go to war again, He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress -- or a nunnery.
END RHYMEのパターン、つまり RHYME SCHME を考えるためには、 文末にアルファベットを付記するのが、便利なんだ。 同じEND RHYMEには同じアルファベットを、1行目にはa、2行目にはb、…といった風にね。
Alexander Popeの RhymeScheme
But when to mischief mortlals bend their will,______.a How soon they find fit instruments of ill ___________.a
William Wordsworth の RhymeScheme
To her fair works did Nature link ____a The human soul that through me ran; ___b And much it grieved my heart to think __a What man has made of man. ______b
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, ____a Men were deceivers ever; ________________b One foot in sea, and one on shore, _____a To one thing constant never. ____________b Then sigh not so, __________________________c But let them go, ____________________________c And be you blithe and bonny, ___________d Converting all your sighs of woe _______c Into Hey nonny, nonny. ____________________d