The Dance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFGHH IIJJKLK MMD NO JJKKII P| Take the name of the swain a forlorn witless elf | A |
| Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself | A |
| A part deem'd essential in each lady's dress | B |
| With what maidens cry when they wish to say yes | B |
| A lullabye carriage soft cozy and light | C |
| With the name of the Poet who sang on the night | C |
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| The queen of Cairo all lovely and winning | D |
| Whose blandishments ever kept Antony grinning | D |
| The flow'r whose odors unremittingly please | E |
| With the glory of forests the king of the trees | E |
| To the prince of the fairies a jealous old knave | F |
| Put the name of the tree that undid Mother Eve | G |
| To finish the whole add that period of day | H |
| When the linnet and thrush to repose hie away | H |
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| The initials of these if adjusted with care | I |
| Will show you the fairest where thousands are fair | I |
| The sweet pretty graces still hover about her | J |
| And Cupid would die with vexation without her | J |
| When she swims in the dance or wherever she goes | K |
| She's crowded by witlings plain fellows and beaux | L |
| Who throng at her elbow and tread on her toes | K |
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| If a pin or a hankerchief happen to fall | M |
| To seize on the prise fills with uproar the ball | M |
| Such pulling and hawling shoving pushing | D |
| As rivals the racket of 'key and the cushion ' | - |
| And happy thrice happy too happy the swain | N |
| Who can replace the pin or bandana again | O |
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| Tho the fellows surround so humbly adore her | J |
| The girls on the contrary cannot endure her | J |
| Her beauty their beauty forever disgraces | K |
| And her sweeter face still eclipses their faces | K |
| For no lov'ly girl can a lov'ly girl bear | I |
| And fair ones are ever at war with the fair | I |
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| Nancy Crooke | P |
Henry Livingston Jr.
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