Ne Sit Ancillae Tibi Amor Pudor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGGAHHHA| THERE'S just a twinkle in your eye | A |
| That seems to say I MIGHT if I | A |
| Were only bold enough to try | A |
| An arm about your waist | B |
| I hear too as you come and go | C |
| That pretty nervous laugh you know | C |
| And then your cap is always so | C |
| Coquettishly displaced | B |
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| Your cap the word's profanely said | D |
| That little top knot white and red | D |
| That quaintly crowns your graceful head | D |
| No bigger than a flower | E |
| Is set with such a witching art | F |
| Is so provocatively smart | F |
| I'd like to wear it on my heart | F |
| An order for an hour | E |
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| O graceful housemaid tall and fair | G |
| I love your shy imperial air | G |
| And always loiter on the stair | G |
| When you are going by | A |
| A strict reserve the fates demand | H |
| But when to let you pass I stand | H |
| Sometimes by chance I touch your hand | H |
| And sometimes catch your eye | A |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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