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