| Pastorals | |
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| by Alexander Pope | |
| Rhyme scheme | Heroic couplet |
| Metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Full text | |
 Pastorals (Pope) at Wikisource | |
Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709. [1] [2] However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen. [1]
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