The Father And Jupiter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFFGHIIJJ EEHHKKLLMMNNOO PPQQRRSS| A man to Jupiter preferred | A |
| Prayers for a wife his prayer was heard | A |
| Jove smiled to see the man caressing | B |
| The granted prayer and doubtful blessing | B |
| - | |
| Again he troubled Jove with prayers | C |
| Fraught with a wife he wanted heirs | C |
| They came to be annoys or joys | D |
| One girl and two big bouncing boys | D |
| And a third time he prayed his prayer | E |
| For grace unto his son and heir | E |
| That he who should his name inherit | F |
| Might be replete with worth and merit | F |
| Then begged his second might aspire | G |
| With strong ambition martial fire | H |
| That Fortune he might break or bend | I |
| And on her neck to heights ascend | I |
| Last for the daughter prayed that graces | J |
| Might tend upon her face and paces | J |
| - | |
| Jove granted all and every prayer | E |
| For daughter and cadet and heir | E |
| The heir turned out a thorough miser | H |
| And lived as lives the college sizar | H |
| He took no joy in show or feat | K |
| And starving did not choose to eat | K |
| The soldier he held honours martial | L |
| And won the baton of field marshal | L |
| And then for a more princely elf | M |
| They laid the warrior on the shelf | M |
| The beauty viewed with high disdain | N |
| The lover's hopes the lover's pain | N |
| Age overtook her undecided | O |
| And Cupid left her much derided | O |
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| The father raised his voice above | P |
| Complaining of the gifts to Jove | P |
| But Jove replied that weal and woe | Q |
| Depended not on outward show | Q |
| That ignorant of good or ill | R |
| Men still beset the heavenly will | R |
| The blest were those of virtuous mind | S |
| Who were to Providence resigned | S |
John Gay
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