Mother, Nurse, And Fairy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FGHHEEII JJ EE KKLM NNOOPPEEQQ| Give me a son grant me an heir | A |
| The fairies granted her the prayer | A |
| And to the partial parent's eyes | B |
| Was never child so fair and wise | B |
| Waked to the morning's pleasing joy | C |
| The mother rose and sought her boy | C |
| She found the nurse like one possessed | D |
| Who wrung her hands and beat her breast | D |
| What is the matter Nurse this clatter | E |
| The boy is well what is the matter | E |
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| What is the matter Ah I fear | F |
| The dreadful fairy has been here | G |
| And changed the baby boy She came | H |
| Invisible I'm not to blame | H |
| She's changed the baby here's a creature | E |
| A pug a monkey every feature | E |
| Where is his mother's mouth and grace | I |
| His father's eyes and nose and face | I |
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| Woman the mother said you're blind | J |
| He's wit and beauty all combined | J |
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| Lord Madam with that horrid leer | E |
| That squint is more than one can bear | E |
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| But as she spoke a pigmy wee soul | K |
| Jumped in head foremost through the key hole | K |
| Perched on the cradle and from thence | L |
| Harangued with fairy vehemence | M |
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| Repair thy wit repair thy wit | N |
| Truly you are devoid of it | N |
| Think you that fairies would change places | O |
| With sons of clay and human races | O |
| In one point like to you alone | P |
| That we are partial to our own | P |
| For neither would a fairy mother | E |
| Exchange her baby for another | E |
| But should we change with imps of clay | Q |
| We should be idiots like as they | Q |
John Gay
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