Lady And Wasp. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF DDGGHHIIJJKKLLMM NNJJ CCMMOOAAPP| What stupid nonsense must the Beauty | A |
| Endure in her diurnal duty | A |
| Buzzings and whispers from the stores | B |
| Of the fatuities of bores | B |
| Yet such impertinence must be pleasing | C |
| Or Beauty would resent such teazing | C |
| A flap will drive a fly away | D |
| A frown will drive a dog to bay | D |
| So if the insects are persistent | E |
| 'Twas Beauty that was inconsistent | E |
| And if she does not know herself | F |
| Blame not the persecuting elf | F |
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| It chanced upon a summer day | D |
| That Boris in her boudoir lay | D |
| She the last work of God's fair creatures | G |
| Contemplated her faultless features | G |
| A wasp assailed her so reclined | H |
| Bred of a persecuting kind | H |
| He now advanced and now retreated | I |
| Till Beauty's neck and face grew heated | I |
| She smote him with her fan she said | J |
| Wasps were excessively ill bred | J |
| But the wasp answered her Alas | K |
| Before you blame me view your glass | K |
| 'Twas beauty caused me to presume | L |
| Those cherry lips that youthful bloom | L |
| Allured me from the plums and peaches | M |
| To Beauty which the soul o'erreaches | M |
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| Don't hit him Jenny Doris cried | N |
| The race of wasps is much belied | N |
| I must recant what I have said | J |
| Wasps are remarkably well bred | J |
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| Away Sir Sting fled and went boasting | C |
| Amongst his fellows Doris toasting | C |
| And as his burgundy he sips | M |
| He showed the sugar on his lips | M |
| Away the greedy host then gathered | O |
| Where they thought dalliance fair was feathered | O |
| They fluttered round her sipped her tea | A |
| And lived in quarters fair and free | A |
| Nor were they banished till she found | P |
| That wasps had stings and felt the wound | P |
John Gay
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