The Carelesse Nurse Mayd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEDE CCCCI sawe a Mayd sitte on a Bank | A |
Beguiled by Wooer fayne and fond | B |
And whiles His flatterynge Vowes She drank | A |
Her Nurselynge slipt within a Pond | B |
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All Even Tide they Talkde and Kist | C |
For She was Fayre and He was Kinde | C |
The Sunne went down before She wist | C |
Another Sonne had sett behinde | C |
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With angrie Hands and frownynge Browe | D |
That deemd Her owne the Urchine's Sinne | E |
She pluckt Him out but he was nowe | D |
Past being Whipt for fallynge in | E |
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She then beginnes to wayle the Ladde | C |
With Shrikes that Echo answered round | C |
O foolish Mayd to be soe sadde | C |
The Momente that her Care was drownd | C |
Thomas Hood
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