Acknowledgement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEE FFGG HHIIJJKKJJ| With the ladies' permission most humbly I'd mention | A |
| How much we're obliged by all their attention | A |
| We sink with the weight of the huge obligation | A |
| Too long too broad to admit compensation | A |
| For us and I blush while I speak I declare | B |
| The charming enchanters be torture their hair | B |
| Till gently it rises and swells like a knoll | C |
| Thirty inches at least from the dear little poll | C |
| From the tip top of which all peer out together | D |
| The ribband the gause the ostrich's feather | D |
| Composing a sight for an Arab to swear at | E |
| Or huge Patagonian a fortnight to stare at | E |
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| Then hoops at right angles that hang from ye knees | F |
| And hoops at the hips in connection with these | F |
| Set the fellows's presumptuous who court an alliance | G |
| And ev'ry pretender at awful defiance | G |
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| And I have been told though I must disbelieve | H |
| For the tidings as fact I would never receive | H |
| That billets of cork have supplied the place | I |
| Of something the Fair ones imagine a grace | I |
| But whether 'tis placed behind or before | J |
| The shoulders to swell or the bosom to shoar | J |
| To raise a false wen or expand a false bump | K |
| Project a false hip or protrude a false rump | K |
| Was never ascertain'd and fegs I declare | J |
| To make more enquiry I never will dare | J |
Henry Livingston Jr.
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