An Elegy On A Lap-dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCBDEEFF BBBGHHIIIIJJ KKLL IIII| Shock's fate I mourn poor Shock is now no more | A |
| Ye Muses mourn ye chamber maids deplore | A |
| Unhappy Shock yet more unhappy fair | B |
| Doom'd to survive thy joy and only care | B |
| Thy wretched fingers now no more shall deck | C |
| And tie the fav'rite ribbon round his neck | C |
| No more thy hand shall smooth his glossy hair | B |
| And comb the wavings of his pendent ear | D |
| Yet cease thy flowing grief forsaken maid | E |
| All mortal pleasures in a moment fade | E |
| Our surest hope is in an hour destroy'd | F |
| And love best gift of heav'n not long enjoy'd | F |
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| Methinks I see her frantic with despair | B |
| Her streaming eyes wrung hands and flowing hair | B |
| Her Mechlen pinners rent the floor bestrow | B |
| And her torn fan gives real signs of woe | G |
| Hence Superstition that tormenting guest | H |
| That haunts with fancied fears the coward breast | H |
| No dread events upon his fate attend | I |
| Stream eyes no more no more thy tresses rend | I |
| Tho' certain omens oft forewarn a state | I |
| And dying lions show the monarch's fate | I |
| Why should such fears bid Celia's sorrow rise | J |
| For when a lap dog falls no lover dies | J |
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| Cease Celia cease restrain thy flowing tears | K |
| Some warmer passion will dispel thy cares | K |
| In man you'll find a more substantial bliss | L |
| More grateful toying and a sweeter kiss | L |
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| He's dead Oh lay him gently in the ground | I |
| And may his tomb be by this verse renown'd | I |
| Here Shock the pride of all his kind is laid | I |
| Who fawn'd like man but ne'er like man betray'd | I |
John Gay
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