A Reply, By Sheridan, To Delany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDDEED FGHIIH JJKLLK| I like your collyrium | A |
| Take my eyes sir and clear ye 'um | A |
| 'Twill gain you a great reputation | B |
| By this you may rise | C |
| Like the doctor so wise | C |
| Who open'd the eyes of the nation | B |
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| And these I must tell ye | D |
| Are bigger than its belly | D |
| You know there's in Livy a story | D |
| Of the hands and the feet | E |
| Denying of meat | E |
| Don't I write in the dark like a Tory | D |
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| Your water so far goes | F |
| 'Twould serve for an Argus | G |
| Were all his whole hundred sore | H |
| So many we read | I |
| He had in his head | I |
| Or Ovid's a son of a whore | H |
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| For your recipe sir | J |
| May my lids never stir | J |
| If ever I think once to fee you | K |
| For I'd have you to know | L |
| When abroad I can go | L |
| That it's honour enough if I see you | K |
Jonathan Swift
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