Samuel Sewall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFG HIHI GJGJ GKGK LMNM| Samuel Sewall in a world of wigs | A |
| Flouted opinion in his personal hair | B |
| For foppery he gave not any figs | A |
| But in his right and honor took the air | B |
| Thus in his naked style though well attired | C |
| He went forth in the city or paid court | D |
| To Madam Winthrop whom he much admired | E |
| Most godly but yet liberal with the port | D |
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| And all the town admired for two full years | F |
| His excellent address his gifts of fruit | G |
| Her gracious ways and delicate white ears | F |
| And held the course of nature abolute | G |
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| But yet she bade him suffer a peruke | H |
| That One be not distinguished from the All | I |
| Delivered of herself this stern rebuke | H |
| Framed in the resonant language of St Paul | I |
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| Madam he answered her I have a Friend | G |
| Furnishes me with hair out of His strength | J |
| And He requires only I attend | G |
| Unto His charity and to its length | J |
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| And all the town was witness to his trust | G |
| On Monday he walked out with the Widow Gibbs | K |
| A pious lady of charm and notable bust | G |
| Whose heart beat tolerably beneath her ribs | K |
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| On Saturday he wrote proposing marriage | L |
| And closed imploring that she be not cruel | M |
| Your favorable answer will oblige | N |
| Madam your humble servant Samuel Sewall | M |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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