To His Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEEAAFG| What will ye my poor orphans do | A |
| When I must leave the world and you | A |
| Who'll give ye then a sheltering shed | B |
| Or credit ye when I am dead | B |
| Who'll let ye by their fire sit | C |
| Although ye have a stock of wit | C |
| Already coin'd to pay for it | C |
| I cannot tell unless there be | D |
| Some race of old humanity | D |
| Left of the large heart and long hand | E |
| Alive as noble Westmorland | E |
| Or gallant Newark which brave two | A |
| May fost'ring fathers be to you | A |
| If not expect to be no less | F |
| Ill used than babes left fatherless | G |
Robert Herrick
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