Cousin Kate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBDBEFGFHFIFJKJK LKJKMIMINIOIPQPQFQRQ HSISTSAS| I was a cottage maiden | A |
| Hardened by sun and air | B |
| Contented with my cottage mates | C |
| Not mindful I was fair | B |
| Why did a great lord find me out | D |
| And praise my flaxen hair | B |
| Why did a great lord find me out | D |
| To fill my heart with care | B |
| He lured me to his palace home | E |
| Woe's me for joy thereof | F |
| To lead a shameless shameful life | G |
| His plaything and his love | F |
| He wore me like a silken knot | H |
| He changed me like a glove | F |
| So now I moan an unclean thing | I |
| Who might have been a dove | F |
| O Lady kate my cousin Kate | J |
| You grew more fair than I | K |
| He saw you at your father's gate | J |
| Chose you and cast me by | K |
| He watched your steps along the lane | L |
| Your work among the rye | K |
| He lifted you from mean estate | J |
| To sit with him on high | K |
| Because you were so good and pure | M |
| He bound you with his ring | I |
| The neighbors call you good and pure | M |
| Call me an outcast thing | I |
| Even so I sit and howl in dust | N |
| You sit in gold and sing | I |
| Now which of us has tenderer heart | O |
| You had the stronger wing | I |
| O cousin Kate my love was true | P |
| Your love was writ in sand | Q |
| If he had fooled not me but you | P |
| If you stood where I stand | Q |
| He'd not have won me with his love | F |
| Nor bought me with his land | Q |
| I would have spit into his face | R |
| And not have taken his hand | Q |
| Yet I've a gift you have not got | H |
| And seem not like to get | S |
| For all your clothes and wedding ring | I |
| I've little doubt you fret | S |
| My fair haired son my shame my pride | T |
| Cling closer closer yet | S |
| Your father would give his lands for one | A |
| To wear his coronet | S |
Christina Rossetti
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