The Shaven And Shorn Goat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEDDDDDDFFDDGGDD EEHHDD DDHHEEIIDD JJDDHH| 'Tis strange to see a new launched fashion | A |
| Lay on the soul and grow a passion | A |
| To illustrate such folly I | B |
| Proffer some beast to the mind's eye | B |
| Now I select the goat What then | C |
| I never said goats equal men | C |
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| A goat of singularity | D |
| Not vainer than a goat need be | E |
| Lay on a thymy bank and viewed | D |
| Himself reflected in the flood | D |
| Confound my beard he thought and said | D |
| How badly it becomes my head | D |
| Upon my honour women might | D |
| Take me to be some crazy wight | D |
| He sought the barber of the place | F |
| A monkey 'twas of Moorish race | F |
| Who shaved mankind drew teeth and bled | D |
| A pole diagonal striped red | D |
| Teeth in their row in order strung | G |
| And pewter bason by them slung | G |
| Far in the street projecting stood | D |
| The pole with bandage symboled blood | D |
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| Pug shaved our friend and took his penny | E |
| And hoped to shave him oft and many | E |
| Goatee impatient of applause | H |
| Then sought his native hills and shaws | H |
| Heigh day how now whoever heard | D |
| What gone and shaven off your beard | D |
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| The fop replied All realms polite | D |
| From Roman to the Muscovite | D |
| Now trim their beards and shave their chins | H |
| Shall we like Monkish Capuchins | H |
| Alone be singular and hairy | E |
| One walks amidst the cities cheery | E |
| And men and boys all cease to poke | I |
| Fun at the beard by way of joke | I |
| In days of old so Romans jeered | D |
| Stoic philosophers with beard | D |
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| Friend said a bearded chieftain you | J |
| At Rome may do as Romans do | J |
| But if you refuge with our herd | D |
| I counsel you to keep your beard | D |
| For if you dread the jeers of others | H |
| How will you bear it from your brothers | H |
John Gay
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