To Meadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IJKL MNMN| Ye have been fresh and green | A |
| Ye have been fill'd with flowers | B |
| And ye the walks have been | C |
| Where maids have spent their hours | B |
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| You have beheld how they | D |
| With wicker arks did come | E |
| To kiss and bear away | D |
| The richer cowslips home | F |
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| You've heard them sweetly sing | G |
| And seen them in a round | H |
| Each virgin like a spring | G |
| With honeysuckles crown'd | H |
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| But now we see none here | I |
| Whose silv'ry feet did tread | J |
| And with dishevell'd hair | K |
| Adorn'd this smoother mead | L |
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| Like unthrifts having spent | M |
| Your stock and needy grown | N |
| You're left here to lament | M |
| Your poor estates alone | N |
Robert Herrick
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