A Pastoral Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEFF G GGGG A HHII G JJGG A GGGG G KKLL A GGDD G MMNN A OONN G GGPF A GGNN G NNNNDERMOT SHEELAH | A |
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A Nymph and swain Sheelah and Dermot hight | B |
Who wont to weed the court of Gosford knight | B |
While each with stubbed knife removed the roots | C |
That raised between the stones their daily shoots | C |
As at their work they sate in counterview | D |
With mutual beauty smit their passion grew | E |
Sing heavenly Muse in sweetly flowing strain | F |
The soft endearments of the nymph and swain | F |
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DERMOT | G |
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My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt | G |
Than strongest weeds that grow those stones betwixt | G |
My spud these nettles from the stones can part | G |
No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart | G |
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SHEELAH | A |
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My love for gentle Dermot faster grows | H |
Than yon tall dock that rises to thy nose | H |
Cut down the dock 'twill sprout again but O | I |
Love rooted out again will never grow | I |
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DERMOT | G |
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No more that brier thy tender leg shall rake | J |
I spare the thistles for Sir Arthur's sake | J |
Sharp are the stones take thou this rushy mat | G |
The hardest bum will bruise with sitting squat | G |
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SHEELAH | A |
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Thy breeches torn behind stand gaping wide | G |
This petticoat shall save thy dear backside | G |
Nor need I blush although you feel it wet | G |
Dermot I vow 'tis nothing else but sweat | G |
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DERMOT | G |
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At an old stubborn root I chanced to tug | K |
When the Dean threw me this tobacco plug | K |
A longer ha'p'orth never did I see | L |
This dearest Sheelah thou shall share with me | L |
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SHEELAH | A |
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In at the pantry door this morn I slipt | G |
And from the shelf a charming crust I whipt | G |
Dennis was out and I got hither safe | D |
And thou my dear shall have the bigger half | D |
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DERMOT | G |
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When you saw Tady at long bullets play | M |
You sate and loused him all a sunshine day | M |
How could you Sheelah listen to his tales | N |
Or crack such lice as his between your nails | N |
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SHEELAH | A |
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When you with Oonah stood behind a ditch | O |
I peep'd and saw you kiss the dirty bitch | O |
Dermot how could you touch these nasty sluts | N |
I almost wish'd this spud were in your guts | N |
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DERMOT | G |
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If Oonah once I kiss'd forbear to chide | G |
Her aunt's my gossip by my father's side | G |
But if I ever touch her lips again | P |
May I be doom'd for life to weed in rain | F |
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SHEELAH | A |
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Dermot I swear though Tady's locks could hold | G |
Ten thousand lice and every louse was gold | G |
Him on my lap you never more shall see | N |
Or may I lose my weeding knife and thee | N |
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DERMOT | G |
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O could I earn for thee my lovely lass | N |
A pair of brogues to bear thee dry to mass | N |
But see where Norah with the sowins comes | N |
Then let us rise and rest our weary bums | N |
Jonathan Swift
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