Democritus And His Neighbors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDFGGHGIJKKL MMNOOPPQQRSRSTTUUVVV WXXWYYZZA2A2B2B2C2C2 D2E2E2F2G2H2I2I2AAJ2 J2K2K2L2L2M2N2N2IN Vulgar Minds what Errors do arise | A |
How diff'ring are the Notions they possess | B |
From theirs whom better Sense do's bless | B |
Who justly are enroll'd amongst the Learn'd and Wise | A |
Democritus whilst he all Science taught | C |
Was by his foolish Neighbors thought | C |
Distracted in his Wits | D |
Who call his speculative Flights | E |
His solitary Walks in starry Nights | E |
But wild and frantick Fits | D |
Bless me each cries from such a working Brain | F |
And to Hippocrates they send | G |
The Sage's long acquainted Friend | G |
To put in Tune his jarring Mind again | H |
And Pericranium mend | G |
Away the Skilful Doctor comes | I |
Of Recipes and Med'cines full | J |
To check the giddy Whirl of Nature's Fires | K |
If so th' unruly Case requires | K |
Or with his Cobweb cleansing Brooms | L |
To sweep and clear the over crouded Scull | M |
If settl'd Spirits flag and make the Patient dull | M |
But asking what the Symptoms were | N |
That made 'em think he was so bad | O |
The Man indeed they cry'd is wond'rous Mad | O |
You at this Distance may behold him there | P |
Beneath that Tree in open Air | P |
Surrounded with the Engines of his Fate | Q |
The Gimcracks of a broken Pate | Q |
Those Hoops a Sphere he calls | R |
That Ball the Earth | S |
And when into his raving Fit he falls | R |
'Twou'd move at once your Pity and your Mirth | S |
To hear him as you will do soon | T |
Declaring there's a Kingdom in the Moon | T |
And that each Star for ought he knows | U |
May some Inhabitants enclose | U |
Philosophers he says may there abound | V |
Such Jugglers as himself be in them found | V |
Which if there be the World may well turn round | V |
At least to those whose Whimsies are so strange | W |
That whilst they're fixt to one peculiar Place | X |
Pretend to measure far extended Space | X |
And 'mongst the Planets range | W |
Behold him now contemplating that Head | Y |
From which long since both Flesh and Brains are fled | Y |
Questioning if that empty hollow Bowl | Z |
Did not ere while contain the Human Soul | Z |
Then starts a Doubt if 't were not to the Heart | A2 |
That Nature rather did that Gift impart | A2 |
Good Sir employ the utmost of your Skill | B2 |
To make him Wiser tho' against his Will | B2 |
Who thinks that he already All exceeds | C2 |
And laughs at our most solemn Words and Deeds | C2 |
Tho' once amongst us he wou'd try a Cause | D2 |
And Bus'ness of the Town discuss | E2 |
Knowing as well as one of us | E2 |
The Price of Corn and standing Market Laws | F2 |
Wou'd bear an Office in his Turn | G2 |
For which good Purposes all Men were born | H2 |
Not to be making Circles in the Sand | I2 |
And scaling Heav'n till they have sold their Land | I2 |
Or when unstock'd below their Pasture lies | A |
To find out Bulls and Rams amidst the Skies | A |
From these Mistakes his Madness we conclude | J2 |
And hearing you was with much Skill endu'd | J2 |
Your Aid we sought Hippocrates amaz'd | K2 |
Now on the Sage now on the Rabble gaz'd | K2 |
And whilst he needless finds his artful Rules | L2 |
Pities a Man of Sense judg'd by a Croud of Fools | L2 |
Then how can we with their Opinions join | M2 |
Who to promote some Int'rest wou'd define | N2 |
The People's Voice to be the Voice Divine | N2 |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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