The Wake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHFIJJKKLM NNMM| Come Anthea let us two | A |
| Go to feast as others do | A |
| Tarts and custards creams and cakes | B |
| Are the junkets still at wakes | B |
| Unto which the tribes resort | C |
| Where the business is the sport | C |
| Morris dancers thou shalt see | D |
| Marian too in pageantry | D |
| And a mimic to devise | E |
| Many grinning properties | F |
| Players there will be and those | G |
| Base in action as in clothes | H |
| Yet with strutting they will please | F |
| The incurious villages | I |
| Near the dying of the day | J |
| There will be a cudgel play | J |
| Where a coxcomb will be broke | K |
| Ere a good word can be spoke | K |
| But the anger ends all here | L |
| Drench'd in ale or drown'd in beer | M |
| Happy rusticks best content | N |
| With the cheapest merriment | N |
| And possess no other fear | M |
| Than to want the Wake next year | M |
Robert Herrick
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