Imitations Of English Poets. Earl Of Dorset: Artemisia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGDHHD IIJKLJ M NNOEEO PPQR SSDTTD UUVWXVThough 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 |
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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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 |
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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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