The Beggar To Mab, The Fairy Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDEEFFGGGHHIIDD JJKLMMNN| Please your Grace from out your store | A |
| Give an alms to one that's poor | B |
| That your mickle may have more | A |
| Black I'm grown for want of meat | C |
| Give me then an ant to eat | C |
| Or the cleft ear of a mouse | D |
| Over sour'd in drink of souce | D |
| Or sweet lady reach to me | E |
| The abdomen of a bee | E |
| Or commend a cricket's hip | F |
| Or his huckson to my scrip | F |
| Give for bread a little bit | G |
| Of a pease that 'gins to chit | G |
| And my full thanks take for it | G |
| Flour of fuz balls that's too good | H |
| For a man in needy hood | H |
| But the meal of mill dust can | I |
| Well content a craving man | I |
| Any orts the elves refuse | D |
| Well will serve the beggar's use | D |
| But if this may seem too much | J |
| For an alms then give me such | J |
| Little bits that nestle there | K |
| In the pris'ner's pannier | L |
| So a blessing light upon | M |
| You and mighty Oberon | M |
| That your plenty last till when | N |
| I return your alms again | N |
Robert Herrick
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