If I Ever Marry, I'll Marry A Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGGG GGHI DDJK| If ever I marry I'll marry a maid | A |
| To marry a widow I am sore afraid | A |
| For maids they are simple and never will grutch | B |
| But widows full oft as they say know too much | B |
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| A maid is so sweet and so gentle of kind | C |
| That a maid is the wife I will choose to my mind | C |
| A widow is froward and never will yield | D |
| Or if such there be you will meet them but seeld | D |
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| A maid ne'er complaineth do what so you will | E |
| But what you mean well a widow takes ill | E |
| A widow will make you a drudge and a slave | F |
| And cost ne'er so much she will ever go brave | F |
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| A maid is so modest she seemeth a rose | G |
| When it first beginneth the bud to unclose | G |
| But a widow full blowen full often deceives | G |
| And the next wind that bloweth shakes down all her leaves | G |
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| The widows be lovely I never gainsay | G |
| But too well all their beauty they know to display | G |
| But a maid hath so great hidden beauty in store | H |
| She can spare to a widow yet never be poor | I |
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| Then if ever I marry give me a fresh maid | D |
| If to marry with any I be not afraid | D |
| But to marry with any it asketh much care | J |
| And some bachelors hold they are best as they are | K |
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