The Beggar To Mab, The Queen Fairy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDEFFGGHHHIIJJKL MMNOPPQQ| 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 source | E |
| Or sweet lady reach to me | F |
| The abdomen of a bee | F |
| Or commend a cricket's hip | G |
| Or his huckson to my scrip | G |
| Give for bread a little bit | H |
| Of a pease that 'gins to chit | H |
| And my full thanks take for it | H |
| Flour of fuz balls that's too good | I |
| For a man in needy hood | I |
| But the meal of mill dust can | J |
| Well content a craving man | J |
| Any orts the elves refuse | K |
| Well will serve the beggar's use | L |
| But if this may seem too much | M |
| For an alms then give me such | M |
| Little bits that nestle there | N |
| In the pris'ner's pannier | O |
| So a blessing light upon | P |
| You and mighty Oberon | P |
| That your plenty last till when | Q |
| I return your alms again | Q |
Robert Herrick
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