Corinna,[1] A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG DDDD FIFI DJKJ JLJL DMDM| A | |
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| This day the year I dare not tell | B |
| Apollo play'd the midwife's part | C |
| Into the world Corinna fell | B |
| And he endued her with his art | C |
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| But Cupid with a Satyr comes | D |
| Both softly to the cradle creep | E |
| Both stroke her hands and rub her gums | D |
| While the poor child lay fast asleep | E |
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| Then Cupid thus This little maid | F |
| Of love shall always speak and write | G |
| And I pronounce the Satyr said | H |
| The world shall feel her scratch and bite | G |
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| Her talent she display'd betimes | D |
| For in a few revolving moons | D |
| She seem'd to laugh and squall in rhymes | D |
| And all her gestures were lampoons | D |
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| At six years old the subtle jade | F |
| Stole to the pantry door and found | I |
| The butler with my lady's maid | F |
| And you may swear the tale went round | I |
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| She made a song how little miss | D |
| Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a lad | J |
| And how when master went to p | K |
| Miss came and peep'd at all he had | J |
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| At twelve a wit and a coquette | J |
| Marries for love half whore half wife | L |
| Cuckolds elopes and runs in debt | J |
| Turns authoress and is Curll's for life | L |
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| Her common place book all gallant is | D |
| Of scandal now a cornucopia | M |
| She pours it out in Atalantis | D |
| Or memoirs of the New Utopia | M |
Jonathan Swift
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