The Monkey Who Had Seen The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJ KKJJLL CCMMNNOO JJPPHHQQRR SSNN JJTU| A monkey to reform the times | A |
| Resolved to visit foreign climes | A |
| For therefore toilsomely we roam | B |
| To bring politer manners home | B |
| Misfortunes serve to make us wise | C |
| Poor pug was caught and made a prize | C |
| Sold was he and by happy doom | D |
| Bought to cheer up a lady's gloom | D |
| Proud as a lover of his chains | E |
| His way he wins his post maintains | E |
| He twirled her knots and cracked her fan | F |
| Like any other gentleman | G |
| When jests grew dull he showed his wit | H |
| And many a lounger hit with it | H |
| When he had fully stored his mind | I |
| As Orpheus once for human kind | I |
| So he away would homewards steal | J |
| To civilize the monkey weal | J |
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| The hirsute sylvans round him pressed | K |
| Astonished to behold him dressed | K |
| They praise his sleeve and coat and hail | J |
| His dapper periwig and tail | J |
| His powdered back like snow admired | L |
| And all his shoulder knot desired | L |
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| Now mark and learn from foreign skies | C |
| I come to make a people wise | C |
| Weigh your own worth assert your place | M |
| The next in rank to human race | M |
| In cities long I passed my days | N |
| Conversed with man and learnt his ways | N |
| Their dress and courtly manners see | O |
| Reform your state and be like me | O |
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| Ye who to thrive in flattery deal | J |
| Must learn your passions to conceal | J |
| And likewise to regard your friends | P |
| As creatures sent to serve your ends | P |
| Be prompt to lie there is no wit | H |
| In telling truth to lose by it | H |
| And knock down worth bespatter merit | Q |
| Don't stint all will your scandal credit | Q |
| Be bumptious bully swear and fight | R |
| And all will own the man polite | R |
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| He grinned and bowed With muttering jaws | S |
| His pugnosed brothers grinned applause | S |
| And fond to copy human ways | N |
| Practise new mischiefs all their days | N |
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| Thus the dull lad too big to rule | J |
| With travel finishes his school | J |
| Soars to the heights of foreign vices | T |
| And copies reckless what their price is | U |
John Gay
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