Advice To The Grub Street Verse-writers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJYe poets ragged and forlorn | A |
Down from your garrets haste | B |
Ye rhymers dead as soon as born | A |
Not yet consign'd to paste | B |
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I know a trick to make you thrive | C |
O 'tis a quaint device | D |
Your still born poems shall revive | C |
And scorn to wrap up spice | D |
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Get all your verses printed fair | E |
Then let them well be dried | F |
And Curll must have a special care | E |
To leave the margin wide | F |
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Lend these to paper sparing Pope | G |
And when he sets to write | H |
No letter with an envelope | G |
Could give him more delight | H |
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When Pope has fill'd the margins round | I |
Why then recall your loan | J |
Sell them to Curll for fifty pound | I |
And swear they are your own | J |
Jonathan Swift
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