The Wounded Cupid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCCDDEFGG| Cupid as he lay among | A |
| Roses by a Bee was stung | A |
| Whereupon in anger flying | B |
| To his Mother said thus crying | B |
| Help O help your Boy's a dying | B |
| And why my pretty Lad said she | C |
| Then blubbering replyed he | C |
| A winged Snake has bitten me | C |
| Which Country people call a Bee | C |
| At which she smil'd then with her hairs | D |
| And kisses drying up his tears | D |
| Alas said she my Wag if this | E |
| Such a pernicious torment is | F |
| Come tel me then how great's the smart | G |
| Of those thou woundest with thy Dart | G |
Robert Herrick
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