A Ballad To The Tune Of The Cut-purse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCEFFFGGHI IJJJKKKLLH MJMJJJJHJH| A | |
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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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| 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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| 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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