A Simile; On Our Want Of Silver, And The Only Way To Remedy It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEDDFGHHIJCC KKLLBBMNOOLG| As when of old some sorceress threw | A |
| O'er the moon's face a sable hue | A |
| To drive unseen her magic chair | B |
| At midnight through the darken'd air | B |
| Wise people who believed with reason | C |
| That this eclipse was out of season | C |
| Affirm'd the moon was sick and fell | D |
| To cure her by a counter spell | D |
| Ten thousand cymbals now begin | E |
| To rend the skies with brazen din | E |
| The cymbals' rattling sounds dispel | D |
| The cloud and drive the hag to hell | D |
| The moon deliver'd from her pain | F |
| Displays her silver face again | G |
| Note here that in the chemic style | H |
| The moon is silver all this while | H |
| So if my simile you minded | I |
| Which I confess is too long winded | J |
| When late a feminine magician | C |
| Join'd with a brazen politician | C |
| Exposed to blind the nation's eyes | K |
| A parchment of prodigious size | K |
| Conceal'd behind that ample screen | L |
| There was no silver to be seen | L |
| But to this parchment let the Drapier | B |
| Oppose his counter charm of paper | B |
| And ring Wood's copper in our ears | M |
| So loud till all the nation hears | N |
| That sound will make the parchment shrivel | O |
| And drive the conjurors to the Devil | O |
| And when the sky is grown serene | L |
| Our silver will appear again | G |
Jonathan Swift
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