Answer To Lines From May Fair[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD A EFEF A GHGH IJIK LMLM| I | A |
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| In pity to the empty'ng Town | B |
| Some God May Fair invented | C |
| When Nature would invite us down | B |
| To be by Art prevented | D |
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| II | A |
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| What a corrupted taste is ours | E |
| When milk maids in mock state | F |
| Instead of garlands made of Flowers | E |
| Adorn their pails with plate | F |
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| III | A |
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| So are the joys which Nature yields | G |
| Inverted in May Fair | H |
| In painted cloth we look for fields | G |
| And step in Booths for air | H |
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| IV | - |
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| Here a Dog dancing on his hams | I |
| And puppets mov'd by wire | J |
| Do far exceed your frisking lambs | I |
| Or song of feather'd quire | K |
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| V | - |
| Howe'er such verse as yours I grant | L |
| Would be but too inviting | M |
| Were fair Ardelia not my Aunt | L |
| Or were it Worsley's writing | M |
Jonathan Swift
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