May In The Green-wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE CBAB AFAG FHIn somer when the shawes be sheyne | A |
And leves be large and long | B |
Hit is full merry in feyre foreste | C |
To here the foulys song | B |
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To se the dere draw to the dale | D |
And leve the hilles hee | E |
And shadow him in the leves grene | A |
Under the green wode tree | E |
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Hit befell on Whitsontide | C |
Early in a May mornyng | B |
The Sonne up faire can shyne | A |
And the briddis mery can syng | B |
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'This is a mery mornyng ' said Litulle Johne | A |
'Be Hym that dyed on tre | F |
A more mery man than I am one | A |
Lyves not in Christiant egrave | G |
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'Pluk up thi hert my dere mayster ' | - |
Litulle Johne can say | F |
'And thynk hit is a fulle fayre tyme | H |
In a mornynge of May ' | - |
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