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Cousin Kate is a numbers about a young woman who is seduced by a Lord. He soon ensn ares her and marries her first cousin Kate instead, leaving behind a broken-hearted cottage maiden over. The maiden is soon gradationed as a fallen woman and is treated like an outcast in society. She is bitter and jealous of her cousin unless soon reveals that she has the one thing her cousin does not and desperately wants a son and replacement to the Lord.The poem begins by saying I was a cottage maiden. It is a simple beginning, talking in the past tense. She tells us she is lower class person. It later says she is Hardened by sun and air this shows that the cottage maiden is strong and worked outside on land and it also suggests by the use of the words contented with my cottage mates that she was happy and a spirit of community .Then it says why did a great original mystify me out, this tells us that the lord has been chasing later on her and she has been caught by him.In this stanza t here is a question asked to the question reveals that the girl is puzzled about the lord is after her. This suggests that she is aware that he has different motives rather than love and romance. This also shows that she knows the flattery is false and just a way of seducing her into bed. The second stanza is where the great lord isnt so great anymore. He lured and tricked her into going to his palace home. She thusly saw another life. Life without working and cleaning however, the lord doesnt take her seriously. He doesnt feel like he has too as they are not marry. He wore me like a dodgy knot is a simile which defines how he used her in his accept way. He just precious her as an accessory. He changed me like a glove this quote is also a simile which outlines h... ...fair haired son, my shame, my pride We are told she has a son, and that not only is it a memory of her shame but he is her pride. Hes all she has. Then the last leash lines on stanza six are switche d. The narrator is now talking to her son, her pride. Your have would give lands for one she is telling her son that if his father really wanted to, he would take him and would leave her (the narrator) with nothing.In conclusion, Cousin Kate is an extremely complicated poem, and even though theres hate and heartbreak throughout, she ends up with pride. The narrator let the lord control her, power over her and firebrand her what he wanted however, Cousin Kate didnt. She would only let him have excite with her if she could still be pure this means that she would have to be married to do so. This probably made the lord have massive consider for Kate and not the narrator.