A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMNOOPPQQDDRRSTUUVV WWXXYZA2A2GGB2B2C2C2 D2D2E2E2F2F2G2G2H2H2 E2E2I2I2AJ2FK2E2E2| Corinna Pride of Drury Lane | A |
| For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain | A |
| Never did Covent Garden boast | B |
| So bright a batter'd strolling Toast | B |
| No drunken Rake to pick her up | C |
| No Cellar where on Tick to sup | C |
| Returning at the Midnight Hour | D |
| Four Stories climbing to her Bow'r | E |
| Then seated on a three legg'd Chair | F |
| Takes off her artificial Hair | F |
| Now picking out a Crystal Eye | G |
| She wipes it clean and lays it by | G |
| Her Eye Brows from a Mouse's Hide | H |
| Stuck on with Art on either Side | H |
| Pulls off with Care and first displays 'em | I |
| Then in a Play Book smoothly lays 'em | I |
| Now dextrously her Plumpers draws | J |
| That serve to fill her hollow Jaws | J |
| Untwists a Wire and from her Gums | K |
| A Set of Teeth completely comes | K |
| Pulls out the Rags contriv'd to prop | L |
| Her flabby Dugs and down they drop | L |
| Proceeding on the lovely Goddess | M |
| Unlaces next her Steel Rib'd Bodice | N |
| Which by the Operator's Skill | O |
| Press down the Lumps the Hollows fill | O |
| Up hoes her Hand and off she slips | P |
| The Bolsters that supply her Hips | P |
| With gentlest Touch she next explores | Q |
| Her Shankers Issues running Sores | Q |
| Effects of many a sad Disaster | D |
| And then to each applies a Plaster | D |
| But must before she goes to Bed | R |
| Rub off the Daubs of White and Red | R |
| And smooth the Furrows in her Front | S |
| With greasy Paper stuck upon't | T |
| She takes a Bolus e'er she sleeps | U |
| And then between two Blankets creeps | U |
| With pains of love tormented lies | V |
| Or if she chance to close her Eyes | V |
| Of Bridewell and the Compter dreams | W |
| And feels the Lash and faintly screams | W |
| Or by a faithless Bully drawn | X |
| At some Hedge Tavern lies in Pawn | X |
| Or to Jamaica seems transported | Y |
| Alone and by no Planter courted | Z |
| Or near Fleet Ditch's oozy Brinks | A2 |
| Surrounded with a Hundred Stinks | A2 |
| Belated seems on watch to lie | G |
| And snap some Cull passing by | G |
| Or struck with Fear her Fancy runs | B2 |
| On Watchmen Constables and Duns | B2 |
| From whom she meets with frequent Rubs | C2 |
| But never from Religious Clubs | C2 |
| Whose Favour she is sure to find | D2 |
| Because she pays them all in Kind | D2 |
| CORINNA wakes A dreadful Sight | E2 |
| Behold the Ruins of the Night | E2 |
| A wicked Rat her Plaster stole | F2 |
| Half eat and dragged it to his Hole | F2 |
| The Crystal Eye alas was miss'd | G2 |
| And Puss had on her Plumpers piss'd | G2 |
| A Pigeon pick'd her Issue Peas | H2 |
| And Shock her Tresses fill'd with Fleas | H2 |
| The Nymph tho' in this mangled Plight | E2 |
| Must ev'ry Morn her Limbs unite | E2 |
| But how shall I describe her Arts | I2 |
| To recollect the scatter'd Parts | I2 |
| Or show the Anguish Toil and Pain | A |
| Of gath'ring up herself again | J2 |
| The bashful Muse will never bear | F |
| In such a Scene to interfere | K2 |
| Corinna in the Morning dizen'd | E2 |
| Who sees will spew who smells be poison'd | E2 |
Jonathan Swift
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