To His Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCCCCCEEFGCCGGEE HHIJKK| Whither mad maiden wilt thou roam | A |
| Far safer 'twere to stay at home | A |
| Where thou mayst sit and piping please | B |
| The poor and private cottages | C |
| Since cotes and hamlets best agree | D |
| With this thy meaner minstrelsy | C |
| There with the reed thou mayst express | C |
| The shepherd's fleecy happiness | C |
| And with thy Eclogues intermix | C |
| Some smooth and harmless Bucolics | C |
| There on a hillock thou mayst sing | E |
| Unto a handsome shepherdling | E |
| Or to a girl that keeps the neat | F |
| With breath more sweet than violet | G |
| There there perhaps such lines as these | C |
| May take the simple villages | C |
| But for the court the country wit | G |
| Is despicable unto it | G |
| Stay then at home and do not go | E |
| Or fly abroad to seek for woe | E |
| Contempts in courts and cities dwell | H |
| No critic haunts the poor man's cell | H |
| Where thou mayst hear thine own lines read | I |
| By no one tongue there censured | J |
| That man's unwise will search for ill | K |
| And may prevent it sitting still | K |
Robert Herrick
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