A Ballad To The Tune Of The Cut-purse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCEFFFGGHI IJJJKKKLLH MJMJJJJHJHA | |
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WRITTEN IN AUGUST | B |
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I | - |
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Once on a time as old stories rehearse | C |
A friar would need show his talent in Latin | D |
But was sorely put to 't in the midst of a verse | C |
Because he could find no word to come pat in | E |
Then all in the place | F |
He left a void space | F |
And so went to bed in a desperate case | F |
When behold the next morning a wonderful riddle | G |
He found it was strangely fill'd up in the middle | G |
CHO Let censuring critics then think what they list on't | H |
Who would not write verses with such an assistant | I |
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II | - |
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This put me the friar into an amazement | I |
For he wisely consider'd it must be a sprite | J |
That he came through the keyhole or in at the casement | J |
And it needs must be one that could both read and write | J |
Yet he did not know | K |
If it were friend or foe | K |
Or whether it came from above or below | K |
Howe'er it was civil in angel or elf | L |
For he ne'er could have fill'd it so well of himself | L |
CHO Let censuring c | H |
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III | - |
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Even so Master Doctor had puzzled his brains | M |
In making a ballad but was at a stand | J |
He had mixt little wit with a great deal of pains | M |
When he found a new help from invisible hand | J |
Then good Doctor Swift | J |
Pay thanks for the gift | J |
For you freely must own you were at a dead lift | J |
And though some malicious young spirit did do't | H |
You may know by the hand it had no cloven foot | J |
CHO Let censuring c | H |
Jonathan Swift
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