Mercury And The Elephant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE FFGHIIJJKKLLMMNNOO PP QQQRR BBSSTTUVVVVWW NNVV| As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood | A |
| Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good | A |
| An Elephant before him lay | B |
| That much encumber'd had the Way | B |
| The Messenger who's still in haste | C |
| Wou'd fain have bow'd and so have past | D |
| When up arose th' unweildy Brute | E |
| And wou'd repeat a late Dispute | E |
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| In which he said he'd gain'd the Prize | F |
| From a wild Boar of monstrous Size | F |
| But Fame quoth he with all her Tongues | G |
| Who Lawyers Ladies Soldiers wrongs | H |
| Has to my Disadvantage told | I |
| An Action throughly Bright and Bold | I |
| Has said that I foul Play had us'd | J |
| And with my Weight th' Opposer bruis'd | J |
| Had laid my Trunk about his Brawn | K |
| Before his Tushes cou'd be drawn | K |
| Had stunn'd him with a hideous Roar | L |
| And twenty thousand Scandals more | L |
| But I defy the Talk of Men | M |
| Or Voice of Brutes in ev'ry Den | M |
| Th' impartial Skies are all my Care | N |
| And how it stands Recorded there | N |
| Amongst you Gods pray What is thought | O |
| Quoth Mercury Then have you Fought | O |
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| Solicitous thus shou'd I be | P |
| For what's said of my Verse and Me | P |
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| Or shou'd my Friends Excuses frame | Q |
| And beg the Criticks not to blame | Q |
| Since from a Female Hand it came | Q |
| Defects in Judgment or in Wit | R |
| They'd but reply Then has she Writ | R |
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| Our Vanity we more betray | B |
| In asking what the World will say | B |
| Than if in trivial Things like these | S |
| We wait on the Event with ease | S |
| Nor make long Prefaces to show | T |
| What Men are not concern'd to know | T |
| For still untouch'd how we succeed | U |
| 'Tis for themselves not us they Read | V |
| Whilst that proceeding to requite | V |
| We own who in the Muse delight | V |
| 'Tis for our Selves not them we Write | V |
| Betray'd by Solitude to try | W |
| Amusements which the Prosp'rous fly | W |
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| And only to the Press repair | N |
| To fix our scatter'd Papers there | N |
| Tho' whilst our Labours are preserv'd | V |
| The Printers may indeed be starv'd | V |
Anne Kingsmill Finch
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