When A Merry Maiden Marries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAFAGHH AABBIIJJEEKHKHJJ| When a merry maiden marries | A |
| Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries | A |
| Every sound becomes a song | B |
| All is right and nothing's wrong | B |
| From to day and ever after | C |
| Let your tears be tears of laughter | C |
| Every sigh that finds a vent | D |
| Be a sigh of sweet content | D |
| When you marry merry maiden | E |
| Then the air with love is laden | E |
| Every flower is a rose | A |
| Every goose becomes a swan | F |
| Every kind of trouble goes | A |
| Where the last year's snows have gone | G |
| Sunlight takes the place of shade | H |
| When you marry merry maid | H |
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| When a merry maiden marries | A |
| Sorrow goes and pleasure tarries | A |
| Every sound becomes a song | B |
| All is right and nothing's wrong | B |
| Gnawing Care and aching Sorrow | I |
| Get ye gone until to morrow | I |
| Jealousies in grim array | J |
| Ye are things of yesterday | J |
| When you marry merry maiden | E |
| Then the air with joy is laden | E |
| All the corners of the earth | K |
| Ring with music sweetly played | H |
| Worry is melodious mirth | K |
| Grief is joy in masquerade | H |
| Sullen night is laughing day | J |
| All the year is merry May | J |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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