Clad All In Brown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFGG HIHJKK LMNMCL OPOPFF| TO DICK | A |
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| Foulest brute that stinks below | B |
| Why in this brown dost thou appear | C |
| For wouldst thou make a fouler show | B |
| Thou must go naked all the year | C |
| Fresh from the mud a wallowing sow | D |
| Would then be not so brown as thou | D |
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| 'Tis not the coat that looks so dun | E |
| His hide emits a foulness out | F |
| Not one jot better looks the sun | E |
| Seen from behind a dirty clout | F |
| So t ds within a glass enclose | G |
| The glass will seem as brown as those | G |
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| Thou now one heap of foulness art | H |
| All outward and within is foul | I |
| Condensed filth in every part | H |
| Thy body's clothed like thy soul | J |
| Thy soul which through thy hide of buff | K |
| Scarce glimmers like a dying snuff | K |
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| Old carted bawds such garments wear | L |
| When pelted all with dirt they shine | M |
| Such their exalted bodies are | N |
| As shrivell'd and as black as thine | M |
| If thou wert in a cart I fear | C |
| Thou wouldst be pelted worse than they're | L |
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| Yet when we see thee thus array'd | O |
| The neighbours think it is but just | P |
| That thou shouldst take an honest trade | O |
| And weekly carry out the dust | P |
| Of cleanly houses who will doubt | F |
| When Dick cries Dust to carry out | F |
Jonathan Swift
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