The Mad Maid's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCAC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KJKJ LJLJGood morrow to the day so fair | A |
Good morning sir to you | B |
Good morrow to mine own torn hair | A |
Bedabbled with the dew | B |
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Good morning to this primrose too | B |
Good morrow to each maid | C |
That will with flowers the tomb bestrew | A |
Wherein my Love is laid | C |
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Ah woe is me woe woe is me | D |
Alack and well a day | E |
For pity sir find out that bee | D |
Which bore my Love away | E |
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I'll seek him in your bonnet brave | F |
I'll seek him in your eyes | G |
Nay now I think they've made his grave | F |
I' th' bed of strawberries | H |
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I'll seek him there I know ere this | I |
The cold cold earth doth shake him | J |
But I will go or send a kiss | I |
By you sir to awake him | J |
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Pray hurt him not though he be dead | K |
He knows well who do love him | J |
And who with green turfs rear his head | K |
And who do rudely move him | J |
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He's soft and tender pray take heed | L |
With bands of cowslips bind him | J |
And bring him home but 'tis decreed | L |
That I shall never find him | J |
Robert Herrick
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