The Ape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFF FFFF FGHG FIHI JKFK LFMF FFFF NOPO LQHL FRSR FHFH| An Ape is but a trivial beast | A |
| Men count it light and vain | B |
| But I would let them have their thoughts | C |
| To have my Ape again | D |
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| To love a beast in any sort | E |
| Is no great sign of grace | F |
| But I have loved a flouting Ape's | F |
| 'Bove any lady's face | F |
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| I have known the power of two fair eyes | F |
| In smile or else in glance | F |
| And how for I a lover was | F |
| They make the spirits dance | F |
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| But I would give two hundred smiles | F |
| Of them that fairest be | G |
| For one look of my staring Ape | H |
| That used to stare on me | G |
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| This beast this Ape it had a face | F |
| If face it might be styled | I |
| Sometimes it was a staring Ape | H |
| Sometimes a beauteous child | I |
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| A Negro flat a Pagod squat | J |
| Cast in a Chinese mould | K |
| And then it was a Cherub's face | F |
| Made of the beaten gold | K |
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| But Time that's meddling meddling still | L |
| And always altering things | F |
| And what's already at the best | M |
| To alteration brings | F |
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| That turns the sweetest buds to flowers | F |
| And chops and changes toys | F |
| That breaks up dreams and parts old friends | F |
| And still commutes our joys | F |
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| Has changed away my Ape at last | N |
| And in its place conveyed | O |
| Thinking therewith to cheat my sight | P |
| A fresh and blooming maid | O |
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| And fair to sight is she and still | L |
| Each day doth sightlier grow | Q |
| Upon the ruins of the Ape | H |
| My ancient playfellow | L |
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| The tale of Sphinx and Theban jests | F |
| I true in me perceive | R |
| I suffer riddles death from dark | S |
| Enigmas I receive | R |
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| Whilst a hid being I pursue | F |
| That lurks in a new shape | H |
| My darling in herself I miss | F |
| And in my ape the ape | H |
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Charles Lamb
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