That Other Maud Muller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB AA CC DD EE FF G HH II JJ KK AA| Maud Muller worked at making hay | A |
| And cleared her forty cents a day | A |
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| Her clothes were coarse but her health was fine | B |
| And so she worked in the sweet sunshine | B |
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| Singing as glad as a bird in May | A |
| 'Barbara Allen' the livelong day | A |
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| She often glanced at the far off town | C |
| And wondered if eggs were up or down | C |
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| And the sweet song died of a strange disease | D |
| Leaving a phantom taste of cheese | D |
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| And an appetite and a nameless ache | E |
| For soda water and ginger cake | E |
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| The judge rode slowly into view | F |
| Stopped his horse in the shade and threw | F |
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| His fine cut out while the blushing Maud | G |
| Marveled much at the kind he 'chawed ' | - |
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| 'He was dry as a fish ' he said with a wink | H |
| 'And kind o' thought that a good square drink | H |
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| Would brace him up ' So the cup was filled | I |
| With the crystal wine that old spring spilled | I |
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| And she gave it him with a sun browned hand | J |
| 'Thanks ' said the judge in accents bland | J |
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| 'A thousand thanks for a sweeter draught | K |
| From a fairer hand' but there he laughed | K |
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| And the sweet girl stood in the sun that day | A |
| And raked the judge instead of the hay | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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