Saint Distaff's Day, Or The Morrow After Twelfth Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHH| Partly work and partly play | A |
| Ye must on S Distaff's day | A |
| From the plough soon free your team | B |
| Then come home and fodder them | C |
| If the maids a spinning go | D |
| Burn the flax and fire the tow | D |
| Scorch their plackets but beware | E |
| That ye singe no maidenhair | E |
| Bring in pails of water then | F |
| Let the maids bewash the men | F |
| Give S Distaff all the right | G |
| Then bid Christmas sport good night | G |
| And next morrow everyone | H |
| To his own vocation | H |
Robert Herrick
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