Cupid Caught Napping Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGHDDDI| Cupid on a summer day | A |
| Wearied by unceasing play | A |
| In a rose heart sleeping lay | A |
| While to guard the tricksy fellow | B |
| Close above the fragrant bed | C |
| Back and forth a gruff bee sped | C |
| And to lull the sleepy head | C |
| Played Zoom Zoom upon his 'cello | B |
| - | |
| Little did the god surmise | D |
| That sweet Anna's cerule eyes | D |
| Gazed on him with glad surprise | D |
| Or that he was in such danger | E |
| But the watchman bee in haste | F |
| Left his post that he might taste | F |
| of the honey nature placed | F |
| On the lips of that fair stranger | E |
| - | |
| Thus unwatched from Cupid's side | G |
| Anna stole the boy god's pride | G |
| All his love darts and then hied | G |
| Far away from capture's chances | H |
| And today she wields the prize | D |
| For Love's quiver still supplies | D |
| Darts that speed from Anna's eyes | D |
| In her love compelling glances | I |
Ellis Parker Butler
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