A Letter To Dr. Helsham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB AA CC AAA DD EE FF GG EE HHH EE EE II EE JK LL EE II MM NN OO C EP| SIR | A |
| Pray discruciate what follows | B |
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| The dullest beast and gentleman's liquor | A |
| When young is often due to the vicar | A |
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| The dullest of beasts and swine's delight | C |
| Make up a bird very swift of flight | C |
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| The dullest beast when high in stature | A |
| And another of royal nature | A |
| For breeding is a useful creature | A |
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| The dullest beast and a party distress'd | D |
| When too long is bad at best | D |
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| The dullest beast and the saddle it wears | E |
| Is good for partridge not for hares | E |
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| The dullest beast and kind voice of a cat | F |
| Will make a horse go though he be not fat | F |
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| The dullest of beasts and of birds in the air | G |
| Is that by which all Irishmen swear | G |
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| The dullest beast and famed college for Teagues | E |
| Is a person very unfit for intrigues | E |
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| The dullest beast and a cobbler's tool | H |
| With a boy that is only fit for school | H |
| In summer is very pleasant and cool | H |
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| The dullest beast and that which you kiss | E |
| May break a limb of master or miss | E |
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| Of serpent kind and what at distance kills | E |
| Poor mistress Dingley oft hath felt its bills | E |
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| The dullest beast and eggs unsound | I |
| Without it I rather would walk on the ground | I |
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| The dullest beast and what covers a house | E |
| Without it a writer is not worth a louse | E |
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| The dullest beast and scandalous vermin | J |
| Of roast or boil'd to the hungry is charming | K |
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| The dullest beast and what's cover'd with crust | L |
| There's nobody but a fool that would trust | L |
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| The dullest beast and mending highways | E |
| Is to a horse an evil disease | E |
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| The dullest beast and a hole in the ground | I |
| Will dress a dinner worth five pound | I |
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| The dullest beast and what doctors pretend | M |
| The cook maid often has by the end | M |
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| The dullest beast and fish for lent | N |
| May give you a blow you'll for ever repent | N |
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| The dullest beast and a shameful jeer | O |
| Without it a lady should never appear | O |
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| Wednesday Night | C |
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| I writ all these before I went to bed Pray explain them for me because | E |
| I cannot do it | P |
Jonathan Swift
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