Julia's Churching, Or Purification Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGHIHJJKK| Put on thy holy filletings and so | A |
| To th' temple with the sober midwife go | A |
| Attended thus in a most solemn wise | B |
| By those who serve the child bed mysteries | C |
| Burn first thine incense next whenas thou see'st | D |
| The candid stole thrown o'er the pious priest | E |
| With reverend curtsies come and to him bring | F |
| Thy free and not decurted offering | F |
| All rites well ended with fair auspice come | G |
| As to the breaking of a bride cake home | H |
| Where ceremonious Hymen shall for thee | I |
| Provide a second epithalamy | H |
| She who keeps chastely to her husband's side | J |
| Is not for one but every night his bride | J |
| And stealing still with love and fear to bed | K |
| Brings him not one but many a maidenhead | K |
Robert Herrick
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