Rose And Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEECCDD FFGGHH IJIJDJDCDCDC CCJJKKDDLLDDMM| I scorn the man who builds his fame | A |
| On ruins of another's name | A |
| As prudes who prudishly declare | B |
| They by a sister scandaled are | C |
| As scribblers covetous of praise | D |
| By slandering snatch themselves the bays | D |
| Beauties and bards alike are prone | E |
| To snatch at honours not their own | E |
| As Lesbia listens all the whister | C |
| To hear some scandal of a sister | C |
| How can soft souls which sigh for sueings | D |
| Rejoice at one another's ruins | D |
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| As in the merry month of May | F |
| A bard enjoyed the break of day | F |
| And quaffed the fragrant scents ascending | G |
| He plucked a blossomed rose transcending | G |
| All blossoms else it moved his tongue | H |
| To rhapsodize and thus he sung | H |
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| Go rose and lie | I |
| On Chlo 's bosom and be there caressed | J |
| For there would I | I |
| Like to a turtle dove aye flee to nest | J |
| From jealousy | D |
| And carking care by which I am opprest | J |
| There lie repose | D |
| Upon a bosom fragrant and as fair | C |
| Nor rival those | D |
| Beauties ethereal you discover there | C |
| For wherefore rose | D |
| Should you as I be subject to despair | C |
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| Spare your comparisons oh spare | C |
| Of me and fragrancy and fair | C |
| A Maiden blush which heard him said | J |
| With face unwontedly flushed red | J |
| Tell me for what committed wrong | K |
| Am I the metaphor of song | K |
| I would you could write rhymes without me | D |
| Nor in your ecstacies so flout me | D |
| In every ditty must we bloom | L |
| Can't you find elsewhere some perfume | L |
| Oh does it add to Chlo 's sweetness | D |
| To visit and compare my meetness | D |
| And to enhance her face must mine | M |
| Be made to wither peak and pine | M |
John Gay
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