Mad Maria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBAAEEFF GGHHIJKK FF LLLLHH GGLLFFLLMad Maria in the Square | A |
Sits upon a wicker chair | A |
When the keeper asks the price | B |
Mad Maria counts her lice | B |
No pesito can she pay | C |
So he shrugs and goes away | C |
Hopes she'll pay him with her prayers | D |
Shabby keeper of the chairs | D |
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Mad Maria counts her lice | B |
Cracks them once and cracks them twice | B |
Combs them from her sunny hair | A |
People stop to turn and stare | A |
Innocent in thought and deed | E |
Mad Maria pays no heed | E |
And the Cross upon her breast | F |
Proves her blessed of the blest | F |
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So she sings her little song | G |
Happy as the day is long | G |
hunting in her camisole | H |
Shy partakers of her dole | H |
thinking Heaven please forgive | I |
Even lice have leave to live | J |
But sweet Reader do not blame | K |
For she kills them just the same | K |
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Mad Maria goes unchid | F |
Mildest maid in all Madrid | F |
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While around in serried ranks | L |
Rear the bold facades of Banks | L |
But when wrath of Heaven smites | L |
Hosts of Mammon's parasites | L |
Mad Maria will not fall | H |
Being oh so very small | H |
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Pariahs to God belong | G |
to be weak is to be strong | G |
Fools are richer than the wise | L |
And who see with shining eyes | L |
Angels in the sordid street | F |
Deem their happiness complete | F |
Mad Maria counts her beads | L |
Cracks her lice and Heaven heeds | L |
Robert Service
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