A Love Poem From A Physician To His Mistress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEECCDDFFGGHHII CCCCJJCCKKCCLL| WRITTEN AT LONDON | A |
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| By poets we are well assured | B |
| That love alas can ne'er be cured | B |
| A complicated heap of ills | C |
| Despising boluses and pills | C |
| Ah Chloe this I find is true | D |
| Since first I gave my heart to you | D |
| Now by your cruelty hard bound | E |
| I strain my guts my colon wound | E |
| Now jealousy my grumbling tripes | C |
| Assaults with grating grinding gripes | C |
| When pity in those eyes I view | D |
| My bowels wambling make me spew | D |
| When I an amorous kiss design'd | F |
| I belch'd a hurricane of wind | F |
| Once you a gentle sigh let fall | G |
| Remember how I suck'd it all | G |
| What colic pangs from thence I felt | H |
| Had you but known your heart would melt | H |
| Like ruffling winds in cavern pent | I |
| Till Nature pointed out a vent | I |
| How have you torn my heart to pieces | C |
| With maggots humours and caprices | C |
| By which I got the hemorrhoids | C |
| And loathsome worms my anus voids | C |
| Whene'er I hear a rival named | J |
| I feel my body all inflamed | J |
| Which breaking out in boils and blains | C |
| With yellow filth my linen stains | C |
| Or parch'd with unextinguish'd thirst | K |
| Small beer I guzzle till I burst | K |
| And then I drag a bloated corpus | C |
| Swell'd with a dropsy like a porpus | C |
| When if I cannot purge or stale | L |
| I must be tapp'd to fill a pail | L |
Jonathan Swift
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