A Description Of A City Shower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEFGHH IIJKLLKKLLMMNNOOKK KKPPQQRRSSTTUUKKVVWC CC XXYYZZFFA2A2A2| Careful Observers may fortel the Hour | A |
| By sure Prognosticks when to dread a Show'r | B |
| While Rain depends the pensive Cat gives o'er | A |
| Her Frolicks and pursues her Tail no more | C |
| Returning Home at Night you'll find the Sink | D |
| Strike your offended Sense with double Stink | D |
| If you be wise then go not far to Dine | E |
| You spend in Coach hire more than save in Wine | E |
| A coming Show'r your shooting Corns presage | F |
| Old Aches throb your hollow Tooth will rage | G |
| Sauntring in Coffee house is Dulman seen | H |
| He damns the Climate and complains of Spleen | H |
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| Mean while the South rising with dabbled Wings | I |
| A Sable Cloud a thwart the Welkin flings | I |
| That swill'd more Liquor than it could contain | J |
| And like a Drunkard gives it up again | K |
| Brisk Susan whips her Linen from the Rope | L |
| While the first drizzling Show'r is born aslope | L |
| Such is that Sprinkling which some careless Quean | K |
| Flirts on you from her Mop but not so clean | K |
| You fly invoke the Gods then turning stop | L |
| To rail she singing still whirls on her Mop | L |
| Not yet the Dust had shun'd th'unequal Strife | M |
| But aided by the Wind fought still for Life | M |
| And wafted with its Foe by violent Gust | N |
| 'Twas doubtful which was Rain and which was Dust | N |
| Ah where must needy Poet seek for Aid | O |
| When Dust and Rain at once his Coat invade | O |
| Sole Coat where Dust cemented by the Rain | K |
| Erects the Nap and leaves a cloudy Stain | K |
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| Now in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down | K |
| Threat'ning with Deloge this Devoted Town | K |
| To Shops in Crouds the dagled Females fly | P |
| Pretend to cheapen Goods but nothing buy | P |
| The Templer spruce while ev'ry Spout's a broach | Q |
| Stays till 'tis fair yet seems to call a Coach | Q |
| The tuck'd up Sempstress walks with hasty Strides | R |
| While Streams run down her oil'd Umbrella's Sides | R |
| Here various Kinds by various Fortunes led | S |
| Commence Acquaintance underneath a Shed | S |
| Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs | T |
| Forget their Fewds and join to save their Wigs | T |
| Box'd in a Chair the Beau impatient sits | U |
| While Spouts run clatt'ring o'er the Roof by Fits | U |
| And ever and anon with frightful Din | K |
| The Leather sounds he trembles from within | K |
| So when Troy Chair men bore the Wooden Steed | V |
| Pregnant with Greeks impatient to be freed | V |
| Those Bully Greeks who as the Moderns do | W |
| Instead of paying Chair men run them thro' | C |
| Laoco'n struck the Outside with his Spear | C |
| And each imprison'd Hero quak'd for Fear | C |
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| Now from all Parts the swelling Kennels flow | X |
| And bear their Trophies with them as they go | X |
| Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell | Y |
| What Streets they sail'd from by the Sight and Smell | Y |
| They as each Torrent drives with rapid Force | Z |
| From Smithfield or St Pulchre's shape their Course | Z |
| And in huge Confluent join at Snow Hill Ridge | F |
| Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn Bridge | F |
| Sweepings from Butchers Stalls Dung Guts and Blood | A2 |
| Drown'd Puppies stinking Sprats all drench'd in Mud | A2 |
| Dead Cats and Turnips Tops come tumbling down the Flood | A2 |
Jonathan Swift
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