Why Was Cupid A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGHG IJKJ LAMAWhy 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 |
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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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