An Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFEGGHHIIJJKK EELLMNOOPP| Never sleeping still awake | A |
| Pleasing most when most I speak | B |
| The delight of old and young | C |
| Though I speak without a tongue | C |
| Nought but one thing can confound me | D |
| Many voices joining round me | D |
| Then I fret and rave and gabble | E |
| Like the labourers of Babel | E |
| Now I am a dog or cow | F |
| I can bark or I can low | E |
| I can bleat or I can sing | G |
| Like the warblers of the spring | G |
| Let the lovesick bard complain | H |
| And I mourn the cruel pain | H |
| Let the happy swain rejoice | I |
| And I join my helping voice | I |
| Both are welcome grief or joy | J |
| I with either sport and toy | J |
| Though a lady I am stout | K |
| Drums and trumpets bring me out | K |
| Then I clash and roar and rattle | E |
| Join in all the din of battle | E |
| Jove with all his loudest thunder | L |
| When I'm vext can't keep me under | L |
| Yet so tender is my ear | M |
| That the lowest voice I fear | N |
| Much I dread the courtier's fate | O |
| When his merit's out of date | O |
| For I hate a silent breath | P |
| And a whisper is my death | P |
Jonathan Swift
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