The Cruel Maid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAEEFFGGGHHI IJJKKLMNNBB| AND cruel maid because I see | A |
| You scornful of my love and me | A |
| I'll trouble you no more but go | B |
| My way where you shall never know | B |
| What is become of me there I | C |
| Will find me out a path to die | C |
| Or learn some way how to forget | D |
| You and your name for ever yet | D |
| Ere I go hence know this from me | A |
| What will in time your fortune be | A |
| This to your coyness I will tell | E |
| And having spoke it once Farewell | E |
| The lily will not long endure | F |
| Nor the snow continue pure | F |
| The rose the violet one day | G |
| See both these lady flowers decay | G |
| And you must fade as well as they | G |
| And it may chance that love may turn | H |
| And like to mine make your heart burn | H |
| And weep to see't yet this thing do | I |
| That my last vow commends to you | I |
| When you shall see that I am dead | J |
| For pity let a tear be shed | J |
| And with your mantle o'er me cast | K |
| Give my cold lips a kiss at last | K |
| If twice you kiss you need not fear | L |
| That I shall stir or live more here | M |
| Next hollow out a tomb to cover | N |
| Me me the most despised lover | N |
| And write thereon THIS READER KNOW | B |
| LOVE KILL'D THIS MAN No more but so | B |
Robert Herrick
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