A Ballad On The Game Of Traffic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF GEHE EEEE EIEI JAJK LMLM| WRITTEN AT THE CASTLE OF DUBLIN | A |
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| My Lord to find out who must deal | B |
| Delivers cards about | C |
| But the first knave does seldom fail | D |
| To find the doctor out | C |
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| But then his honour cried Gadzooks | E |
| And seem'd to knit his brow | F |
| For on a knave he never looks | E |
| But he thinks upon Jack How | F |
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| My lady though she is no player | G |
| Some bungling partner takes | E |
| And wedged in corner of a chair | H |
| Takes snuff and holds the stakes | E |
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| Dame Floyd looks out in grave suspense | E |
| For pair royals and sequents | E |
| But wisely cautious of her pence | E |
| The castle seldom frequents | E |
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| Quoth Herries fairly putting cases | E |
| I'd won it on my word | I |
| If I had but a pair of aces | E |
| And could pick up a third | I |
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| But Weston has a new cast gown | J |
| On Sundays to be fine in | A |
| And if she can but win a crown | J |
| 'Twill just new dye the lining | K |
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| With these is Parson Swift | L |
| Not knowing how to spend his time | M |
| Does make a wretched shift | L |
| To deafen them with puns and rhyme | M |
Jonathan Swift
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