Apollo; Or, A Problem Solved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPQRRSS| Apollo god of light and wit | A |
| Could verse inspire but seldom writ | A |
| Refined all metals with his looks | B |
| As well as chemists by their books | B |
| As handsome as my lady's page | C |
| Sweet five and twenty was his age | C |
| His wig was made of sunny rays | D |
| He crown'd his youthful head with bays | D |
| Not all the court of Heaven could show | E |
| So nice and so complete a beau | E |
| No heir upon his first appearance | F |
| With twenty thousand pounds a year rents | G |
| E'er drove before he sold his land | H |
| So fine a coach along the Strand | H |
| The spokes we are by Ovid told | I |
| Were silver and the axle gold | I |
| I own 'twas but a coach and four | J |
| For Jupiter allows no more | J |
| Yet with his beauty wealth and parts | K |
| Enough to win ten thousand hearts | K |
| No vulgar deity above | L |
| Was so unfortunate in love | L |
| Three weighty causes were assign'd | M |
| That moved the nymphs to be unkind | M |
| Nine Muses always waiting round him | N |
| He left them virgins as he found them | O |
| His singing was another fault | P |
| For he could reach to B in alt | Q |
| And by the sentiments of Pliny | R |
| Such singers are like Nicolini | R |
| At last the point was fully clear'd | S |
| In short Apollo had no beard | S |
Jonathan Swift
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