How Lilies Came White Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFFE| White though ye be yet lilies know | A |
| From the first ye were not so | A |
| But I'll tell ye | B |
| What befell ye | B |
| Cupid and his mother lay | C |
| In a cloud while both did play | C |
| He with his pretty finger press'd | D |
| The ruby niplet of her breast | D |
| Out of which the cream of light | E |
| Like to a dew | F |
| Fell down on you | F |
| And made ye white | E |
Robert Herrick
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