Corinna's Going A-maying Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDDAADD AABBEEDDDDFFGG GGHHIJKKDDDDGG DDLMNNOOAADDGG PPDDAAAADDDDGG| Get up get up for shame The blooming morn | A |
| Upon her wings presents the god unshorn | A |
| See how Aurora throws her fair | B |
| Fresh quilted colours through the air | B |
| Get up sweet slug a bed and see | C |
| The dew bespangling herb and tree | C |
| Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east | D |
| Above an hour since yet you not drest | D |
| Nay not so much as out of bed | D |
| When all the birds have matins said | D |
| And sung their thankful hymns 'tis sin | A |
| Nay profanation to keep in | A |
| Whereas a thousand virgins on this day | D |
| Spring sooner than the lark to fetch in May | D |
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| Rise and put on your foliage and be seen | A |
| To come forth like the spring time fresh and green | A |
| And sweet as Flora Take no care | B |
| For jewels for your gown or hair | B |
| Fear not the leaves will strew | E |
| Gems in abundance upon you | E |
| Besides the childhood of the day has kept | D |
| Against you come some orient pearls unwept | D |
| Come and receive them while the light | D |
| Hangs on the dew locks of the night | D |
| And Titan on the eastern hill | F |
| Retires himself or else stands still | F |
| Till you come forth Wash dress be brief in praying | G |
| Few beads are best when once we go a Maying | G |
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| Come my Corinna come and coming mark | G |
| How each field turns a street each street a park | G |
| Made green and trimm'd with trees see how | H |
| Devotion gives each house a bough | H |
| Or branch each porch each door ere this | I |
| An ark a tabernacle is | J |
| Made up of white thorn neatly interwove | K |
| As if here were those cooler shades of love | K |
| Can such delights be in the street | D |
| And open fields and we not see 't | D |
| Come we'll abroad and let 's obey | D |
| The proclamation made for May | D |
| And sin no more as we have done by staying | G |
| But my Corinna come let 's go a Maying | G |
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| There 's not a budding boy or girl this day | D |
| But is got up and gone to bring in May | D |
| A deal of youth ere this is come | L |
| Back and with white thorn laden home | M |
| Some have despatch'd their cakes and cream | N |
| Before that we have left to dream | N |
| And some have wept and woo'd and plighted troth | O |
| And chose their priest ere we can cast off sloth | O |
| Many a green gown has been given | A |
| Many a kiss both odd and even | A |
| Many a glance too has been sent | D |
| From out the eye love's firmament | D |
| Many a jest told of the keys betraying | G |
| This night and locks pick'd yet we're not a Maying | G |
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| Come let us go while we are in our prime | P |
| And take the harmless folly of the time | P |
| We shall grow old apace and die | D |
| Before we know our liberty | D |
| Our life is short and our days run | A |
| As fast away as does the sun | A |
| And as a vapour or a drop of rain | A |
| Once lost can ne'er be found again | A |
| So when or you or I are made | D |
| A fable song or fleeting shade | D |
| All love all liking all delight | D |
| Lies drown'd with us in endless night | D |
| Then while time serves and we are but decaying | G |
| Come my Corinna come let 's go a Maying | G |
Robert Herrick
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