To A Black Gin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Daughter of Eve draw near I would behold theeA
Good Heavens Could ever arm of man enfold theeA
Did the same Nature that made Phryne mould theeA
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Come thou to leeward for thy balmy presenceB
Savoureth not a whit of mille fleurescenceB
My nose is no insentient excrescenceB
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Thou art not beautiful I tell thee plainlyA
Oh thou ungainliest of things ungainlyA
Who thinks thee less than hideous doats insanelyA
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Most unaesthetical of things terrestrialA
Hadst thou indeed an origin celestialA
Thy lineaments are positively bestialA
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Yet thou my sister art the clergy tell meA
Though truth to state thy brutish looks compel meA
To hope these parsons merely want to sell meA
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A hundred times and more I've heard and read itC
But if Saint Paul himself came down and said itC
Upon my soul I could not give it creditD
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God's image cut in ebony says someoneE
'Tis to be hoped some day thou may'st become oneE
The present image is a very rum oneE
Thy face the human face divine Oh MosesB
Whatever trait divine thy face disclosesB
Some vile Olympian cross play pre supposesB
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Thy nose appeareth but a transverse sectionE
Thy mouth hath no particular directionE
A flabby rimmed abyss of imperfectionE
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Thy skull development mine eye displeasesB
Thou wilt not suffer much from brain diseasesB
Thy facial angle forty five degrees isB
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The coarseness of thy tresses is distressingF
With grease and raddle firmly coalescingF
I cannot laud thy system of top dressingF
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Thy dress is somewhat scant for proper feelingF
As is thy flesh too scarce thy bones concealingF
Thy calves unquestionably want re vealingF
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Thy rugged skin is hideous with tattooingF
And legible with hieroglyphic wooingF
Sweet things in art of some fierce lover's doingF
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For thou some lover hast I bet a guineaA
Some partner in thy fetid ignominyA
The raison d' tre of this piccaninnyA
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What must he be whose eye thou hast delightedG
His sense of beauty hopelessly benightedH
The canons of his taste how badly sightedG
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What must his gauge be if thy features pleased himI
If lordship of such limbs as thine appeased himI
It was not calf love certainly that seized himI
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And is he amorously sympatheticF
And doth he kiss thee Oh my soul propheticF
The very notion is a strong emeticF
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And doth he smooth thine hours with oily talkingF
And take thee conjugally out a walkingF
And crown thy transports with a tom a hawkingF
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I guess his love and anger are combined soB
His passions on thy shoulders are defined soB
His passages of love are underlined soB
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Tell me thy name What Helen Oh OEnoneA
That name bequeathed to one so foul and bonyA
Avengeth well thy ruptured matrimonyA
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Eve's daughter with that skull and that complexionA
What principle of Natural SelectionA
Gave thee with Eve the most remote connectionA
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Sister of L E L of Mrs Stowe tooJ
Of E B Browning Harriet Martineau tooJ
Do theologians know where fibbers go toJ
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Of great George Eliot whom I worship dailyA
Of Charlotte Bront and Joanna BaillieA
Methinks that theory is rather scalyA
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Thy primal parents came a period laterK
The handiwork of some vile imitatorK
I fear they had the devil's imprimaturK
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This in the retrospect Now what's before theeA
The white man's heaven I fear would simply bore theeA
Ten minutes of doxology would floor theeA
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Thy Paradise should be some land of GoshenA
Where appetite should be thy sole devotionA
And surfeit be the climax of emotionA
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A land of Bunya bunyas towering splendidG
Of honey bags on every tree suspendedG
A Paradise of sleep and riot blendedG
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Of tons of 'baccy and tons more to followA
Of wallaby as much as thou couldst swallowA
Of hollow trees with 'possums in the hollowA
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There undismayed by frost or flood or thunderK
As joyous as the skies thou roamest underK
There shouldst thou Oooey Stop She's offL
No wonderK

James Brunton Stephens



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