In Imitation Of E. Of Dorset : Artemisia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGDHHD IIJKLJ| Tho' Artemisia talks by fits | A |
| Of councils classics fathers wits | A |
| Reads Malbranche 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 Magpye hight | I |
| Majestically stalk | J |
| A stately worthless animal | K |
| That plies the tongue and wags the tail | L |
| All flutter pride and talk | J |
Alexander Pope
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