The rhyme scheme for each stanza of the shepherd's love song is as follows:
The poem*** has seven stanzas. The 1st stanza is the general leader, calling on his lover to make a quick choice and not to hesitate any longer: "Come, live with me and be my lover." This is a longing for love, a revealing of affection, a sincere quest. From stanza 2 to stanza 6, the poet further expresses the innocent love of the hero and heroine against the background of nature's harmonious and beautiful idyllic scenery.
They can sit freely and snuggly on the mountain rock, watching the shepherd feed the lambs, and can wander beside the shallow brook, listening attentively to the birds singing the ode to love amidst the tinkling sound of the gurgling water. What a leisurely, free and contented life this is. Then, the poet continues to describe the happiness of love in terms of what he wears, what he wears, what he uses, and even what he eats.
Weaving a crown of roses, making a bed of thousands of bouquets, weaving a gown of leaves from the tree of Eros, and using the best wool as a protection against the cold. the best wool, to make linings for shoes and robes against the cold," "buckles of pure gold," "belts of ivy and grass," and so on, with these very beautiful, precious, and rare articles of jewelry to dress up the lover, and make her They used these very beautiful, precious, and rare items as jewelry to dress up their lovers and make them as beautiful, pretty, and noble as the fairies.
At the same time, they also prepared for their lovers "delicious food" and "sumptuous delicacies", which were "set out on a table made of ivory", just as "which the gods in heaven use". The poet's purpose in writing this is, "If these pleasures move your heart, / Come, live with me and be my love!"
In the last stanza, the poet writes about the revelry of the shepherd boys, i.e., "Every May morning, / Will dance for you and sing into the clouds." The purpose of these revelries remains, "If these joys move your heart, / Come, live with me and be my love!"
Expanded Knowledge:
"The Shepherd's Lovesong" is one of the most famous Elizabethan love poem masterpieces. After the poem was published, it was praised by many poets and the general readers. Shakespeare once quoted several lines from the poem in his comedies. In addition, many other poets had written readings or flattering poems to the poem, which shows the influence of Marlowe's poem at that time.
Marlowe, in this love poem, paints a picture of an ideal idyllic life for us: there are "steep and beautiful mountains", "windy and beautiful valleys", "shallow brooks", "shallow streams", "shallow fields", "shallow streams", "shallow streams", "shallow streams", "shallow streams" and "shallow streams". There are "steep and beautiful mountains", "windy valleys and fields", "shallow brooks", "gurgling water", "bouquets of thousands of flowers", and "lovely lambs". The poet's purpose in describing all these is to call the shepherdess to come here to "live together" and "be my love".
In order to **** with the experience of this paradise life of happiness and the sweetness of love life. Marlowe took himself as a passionate shepherd, his lover as a shepherdess, with an idyllic life and their own love, calling lovers and their own *** with life.