The Brother's Reply Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFDGHHBBEEIIJJ JJKKLMJJNNOODD PQJJRRSSTUVVOOWWXXYY ZZ| Sister fie for shame no more | A |
| Give this ignorant babble o'er | B |
| Nor with little female pride | C |
| Things above your sense deride | C |
| Why this foolish under rating | D |
| Of my first attempts at Latin | E |
| Know you not each thing we prize | F |
| Does from small beginnings rise | F |
| 'Twas the same thing with your writing | D |
| Which you now take such delight in | G |
| First you learnt the down stroke line | H |
| Then the hair stroke thin and fine | H |
| Then a curve and then a better | B |
| Till you came to form a letter | B |
| Then a new task was begun | E |
| How to join them two in one | E |
| Till you got these first steps past | I |
| To your fine text hand at last | I |
| So though I at first commence | J |
| With the humble accidence | J |
| And my study's course affords | J |
| Little else as yet but words | J |
| I shall venture in a while | K |
| At construction grammar style | K |
| Learn my syntax and proceed | L |
| Classic authors next to read | M |
| Such as wiser better make us | J |
| Sallust Ph drus Ovid Flaccus | J |
| All the poets with their wit | N |
| All the grave historians writ | N |
| Who the lives and actions show | O |
| Of men famous long ago | O |
| Even their very sayings giving | D |
| In the tongue they used when living | D |
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| Think not I shall do that wrong | P |
| Either to my native tongue | Q |
| English authors to despise | J |
| Or those books which you so prize | J |
| Though from them awhile I stray | R |
| By new studies called away | R |
| Them when next I take in hand | S |
| I shall better understand | S |
| For I've heard wise men declare | T |
| Many words in English are | U |
| From the Latin tongue derived | V |
| Of whose sense girls are deprived | V |
| 'Cause they do not Latin know | O |
| But if all this anger grow | O |
| From this cause that you suspect | W |
| By proceedings indirect | W |
| I would keep as misers pelf | X |
| All this learning to myself | X |
| Sister to remove this doubt | Y |
| Rather than we will fall out | Y |
| If our parents will agree | Z |
| You shall Latin learn with me | Z |
Charles Lamb
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