May Day Customs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDBBEEFFGG B| I have seen the Lady of the May | A |
| Set in an arbour on a holiday | A |
| Built by the May pole where the jocund swains | B |
| Dance with the maidens to the bagpipe's strains | B |
| When envious night commands them to be gone | C |
| Call for the merry youngsters one by one | D |
| And for their well performance soon disposes | B |
| To this a garland interwove with roses | B |
| To that a carv d hook or well wrought scrip | E |
| Gracing another with her cherry lip | E |
| To one her garter to another then | F |
| A handkerchief cast o'er and o'er again | F |
| And none returneth empty that hath spent | G |
| His pains to fill their rural merriment | G |
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| From Britannia's Pastorals | B |
William Browne
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