Bouts Rimez[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA CADA EAFA GAGA HAIA JAJA AAAA KALA MANA| ON SIGNORA DOMITILLA | A |
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| Our schoolmaster may roar i' th' fit | B |
| Of classic beauty haec et illa | A |
| Not all his birch inspires such wit | B |
| As th'ogling beams of Domitilla | A |
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| Let nobles toast in bright champaign | C |
| Nymphs higher born than Domitilla | A |
| I'll drink her health again again | D |
| In Berkeley's tar or sars'parilla | A |
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| At Goodman's Fields I've much admired | E |
| The postures strange of Monsieur Brilla | A |
| But what are they to the soft step | F |
| The gliding air of Domitilla | A |
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| Virgil has eternized in song | G |
| The flying footsteps of Camilla | A |
| Sure as a prophet he was wrong | G |
| He might have dream'd of Domitilla | A |
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| Great Theodose condemn'd a town | H |
| For thinking ill of his Placilla | A |
| And deuce take London if some knight | I |
| O' th' city wed not Domitilla | A |
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| Wheeler Sir George in travels wise | J |
| Gives us a medal of Plantilla | A |
| But O the empress has not eyes | J |
| Nor lips nor breast like Domitilla | A |
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| Not all the wealth of plunder'd Italy | A |
| Piled on the mules of king At tila | A |
| Is worth one glove I'll not tell a bit a lie | A |
| Or garter snatch'd from Domitilla | A |
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| Five years a nymph at certain hamlet | K |
| Y cleped Harrow of the Hill a | A |
| bused much my heart and was a damn'd let | L |
| To verse but now for Domitilla | A |
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| Dan Pope consigns Belinda's watch | M |
| To the fair sylphid Momentilla | A |
| And thus I offer up my catch | N |
| To the snow white hands of Domitilla | A |
Jonathan Swift
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