To A Little Maid By A Policeman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDC EEBBBBFFB BBGFFGEEE| Come with me little maid | A |
| Nay shrink not thus afraid | A |
| I'll harm thee not | B |
| Fly not my love from me | C |
| I have a home for thee | C |
| A fairy grot | B |
| Where mortal eye | D |
| Can rarely pry | D |
| There shall thy dwelling be | C |
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| List to me while I tell | E |
| The pleasures of that cell | E |
| Oh little maid | B |
| What though its couch be rude | B |
| Homely the only food | B |
| Within its shade | B |
| No thought of care | F |
| Can enter there | F |
| No vulgar swain intrude | B |
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| Come with me little maid | B |
| Come to the rocky shade | B |
| I love to sing | G |
| Live with us maiden rare | F |
| Come for we want thee there | F |
| Thou elfin thing | G |
| To work thy spell | E |
| In some cool cell | E |
| In stately Pentonville | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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