The Incomparable Soporific Doctor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKK LLMMNN| Sweet sleeky Doctor dear pacific soul | A |
| Lay at the beef and suck the vital bowl | A |
| Still let the involving smoke around thee fly | B |
| And broad looked dulness settle in thine eye | B |
| Ah soft in down these dainty limbs repose | C |
| And in the very lap of slumber doze | C |
| But chiefly on the lazy day of grace | D |
| Call forth the lambent glories of thy face | D |
| If aught the thoughts of dinner can prevail | E |
| And sure the Sunday's dinner cannot fail | E |
| To the thin church in sleepy pomp proceed | F |
| And lean on the lethargic book thy head | G |
| Those eyes wipe often with the hallowed lawn | H |
| Profoundly nod immeasurably yawn | H |
| Slow let the prayers by thy meek lips be sung | I |
| Nor let thy thoughts be distanced by thy tongue | I |
| If e'er the lingerers are within a call | J |
| Or if on prayers thou deign'st to think at all | J |
| Yet only yet the swimming head we bend | K |
| But when serene the pulpit you ascend | K |
| Through every joint a gentle horror creeps | L |
| And round you the consenting audience sleeps | L |
| So when an ass with sluggish front appears | M |
| The horses start and prick their quivering ears | M |
| But soon as ere the sage is heard to bray | N |
| The fields all thunder and they bound away | N |
James Thomson
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