Twelfth Night: Or, King And Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEBFFB GGBHHB IIJKKJ LLBMMB| Now now the mirth comes | A |
| With the cake full of plums | A |
| Where bean's the king of the sport here | B |
| Beside we must know | C |
| The pea also | C |
| Must revel as queen in the court here | B |
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| Begin then to choose | D |
| This night as ye use | E |
| Who shall for the present delight here | B |
| Be a king by the lot | F |
| And who shall not | F |
| Be Twelfth day queen for the night here | B |
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| Which known let us make | G |
| Joy sops with the cake | G |
| And let not a man then be seen here | B |
| Who unurg'd will not drink | H |
| To the base from the brink | H |
| A health to the king and the queen here | B |
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| Next crown the bowl full | I |
| With gentle lamb's wool | I |
| Add sugar nutmeg and ginger | J |
| With store of ale too | K |
| And thus ye must do | K |
| To make the wassail a swinger | J |
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| Give then to the king | L |
| And queen wassailing | L |
| And though with ale ye be whet here | B |
| Yet part ye from hence | M |
| As free from offence | M |
| As when ye innocent met here | B |
Robert Herrick
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