A Maypole Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKCC| Deprived of root and branch and rind | A |
| Yet flowers I bear of every kind | A |
| And such is my prolific power | B |
| They bloom in less than half an hour | B |
| Yet standers by may plainly see | C |
| They get no nourishment from me | C |
| My head with giddiness goes round | D |
| And yet I firmly stand my ground | D |
| All over naked I am seen | E |
| And painted like an Indian queen | E |
| No couple beggar in the land | F |
| E'er joined such numbers hand in hand | F |
| I joined them fairly with a ring | G |
| Nor can our parson blame the thing | G |
| And though no marriage words are spoke | H |
| They part not till the ring is broke | H |
| Yet hypocrite fanatics cry | I |
| I'm but an idol raised on high | I |
| And once a weaver in our town | J |
| A damned Cromwellian knocked me down | J |
| I lay a prisoner twenty years | K |
| And then the jovial cavaliers | K |
| To their old post restored all three | C |
| I mean the church the king and me | C |
Jonathan Swift
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