Mad Maria Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBAAEEFF GGHHIJKK FF LLLLHH GGLLFFLL| Mad 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 William Service
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