The Mad Maid's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCAC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KJKJ LJLJ| Good 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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