When Stretch'd On One's Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GHIJJI KKKLLK KKKKKM| When stretch'd on one's bed | A |
| With a fierce throbbing head | A |
| Which preculdes alike thought or repose | B |
| How little one cares | C |
| For the grandest affairs | C |
| That may busy the world as it goes | B |
| - | |
| How little one feels | D |
| For the waltzes and reels | D |
| Of our Dance loving friends at a Ball | E |
| How slight one's concern | F |
| To conjecture or learn | F |
| What their flounces or hearts may befall | E |
| - | |
| How little one minds | G |
| If a company dines | H |
| On the best that the Season affords | I |
| How short is one's muse | J |
| O'er the Sauces and Stews | J |
| Or the Guests be they Beggars or Lords | I |
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| How little the Bells | K |
| Ring they Peels toll they Knells | K |
| Can attract our attention or Ears | K |
| The Bride may be married | L |
| The Corse may be carried | L |
| And touch nor our hopes nor our fears | K |
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| Our own bodily pains | K |
| Ev'ry faculty chains | K |
| We can feel on no subject besides | K |
| Tis in health and in ease | K |
| We the power must seize | K |
| For our friends and our souls to provide | M |
Jane Austen
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