Why Was Cupid A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJKJ LAMA| Why was Cupid a boy | A |
| And why a boy was he | B |
| He should have been a girl | C |
| For aught that I can see | B |
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| For he shoots with his bow | D |
| And the girl shoots with her eye | E |
| And they both are merry and glad | F |
| And laugh when we do cry | E |
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| And to make Cupid a boy | A |
| Was the Cupid girl's mocking plan | G |
| For a boy can't interpret the thing | H |
| Till he is become a man | G |
| - | |
| And then he's so pierc'd with cares | I |
| And wounded with arrowy smarts | J |
| That the whole business of his life | K |
| Is to pick out the heads of the darts | J |
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| 'Twas the Greeks' love of war | L |
| Turn'd Love into a boy | A |
| And woman into a statue of stone | M |
| And away fled every joy | A |
William Blake
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