Answered By Dr. Swift (to Lady Carteret) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIBJKLMN| WITH half an eye your riddle I spy | A |
| I observe your wicket hemm'd in by a thicket | B |
| And whatever passes is strain'd through glasses | C |
| You say it is quiet I flatly deny it | B |
| It wanders about without stirring out | D |
| No passion so weak but gives it a tweak | E |
| Love joy and devotion set it always in motion | F |
| And as for trie tragic effects of its magic | G |
| Which you say it can kill or revive at its will | H |
| The dead are all sound and they live above ground | I |
| After all you have writ it cannot be wit | B |
| Which plainly does follow since it flies from Apollo | J |
| Its cowardice such it cries at a touch | K |
| 'Tis a perfect milksop grows drunk with a drop | L |
| Another great fault it cannot bear salt | M |
| And a hair can disarm it of every charm | N |
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