Bid Adieu To Maidenhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEAA| Bid adieu adieu adieu | A |
| Bid adieu to girlish days | B |
| Happy Love is come to woo | A |
| Thee and woo thy girlish ways | B |
| The zone that doth become thee fair | C |
| The snood upon thy yellow hair | C |
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| When thou hast heard his name upon | D |
| The bugles of the cherubim | E |
| Begin thou softly to unzone | D |
| Thy girlish bosom unto him | E |
| And softly to undo the snood | A |
| That is the sign of maidenhood | A |
James Joyce
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