Imitations Of English Poets. Earl Of Dorset: Artemisia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGDHHD IIJKLJ M NNOEEO PPQR SSDTTD UUVWXV| Though Artemisia talks by fits | A |
| Of councils classics fathers wits | A |
| Reads Malebranche Boyle and Locke | B |
| Yet in some things methinks she fails | C |
| 'Twere well if she would pare her nails | C |
| And wear a cleaner smock | B |
| - | |
| Haughty and huge as High Dutch bride | D |
| Such nastiness and so much pride | D |
| Are oddly join'd by fate | E |
| On her large squab you find her spread | F |
| Like a fat corpse upon a bed | F |
| That lies and stinks in state | E |
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| She wears no colours sign of grace | G |
| On any part except her face | G |
| All white and black beside | D |
| Dauntless her look her gesture proud | H |
| Her voice theatrically loud | H |
| And masculine her stride | D |
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| So have I seen in black and white | I |
| A prating thing a magpie height | I |
| Majestically stalk | J |
| A stately worthless animal | K |
| That plies the tongue and wags the tail | L |
| All flutter pride and talk | J |
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| PHRYNE | M |
| - | |
| Phryne had talents for mankind | N |
| Open she was and unconfined | N |
| Like some free port of trade | O |
| Merchants unloaded here their freight | E |
| And agents from each foreign state | E |
| Here first their entry made | O |
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| Her learning and good breeding such | P |
| Whether the Italian or the Dutch | P |
| Spaniards or French came to her | Q |
| To all obliging she'd appear | R |
| 'Twas 'Si Signor ' 'twas 'Yaw Mynheer ' | - |
| 'Twas 'S' il vous plait Monsieur ' | - |
| - | |
| Obscure by birth renown'd by crimes | S |
| Still changing names religions climes | S |
| At length she turns a bride | D |
| In diamonds pearls and rich brocades | T |
| She shines the first of batter'd jades | T |
| And flutters in her pride | D |
| - | |
| So have I known those insects fair | U |
| Which curious Germans hold so rare | U |
| Still vary shapes and dyes | V |
| Still gain new titles with new forms | W |
| First grubs obscene then wriggling worms | X |
| Then painted butterflies | V |
Alexander Pope
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