Dr. Sheridan's Reply To The Dean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLLMNNJJ O| Don't think these few lines which I send a reproach | A |
| From my Muse in a car to your Muse in a coach | A |
| The great god of poems delights in a car | B |
| Which makes him so bright that we see him from far | B |
| For were he mew'd up in a coach 'tis allow'd | C |
| We'd see him no more than we see through a cloud | C |
| You know to apply this I do not disparage | D |
| Your lines but I say they're the worse for the carriage | D |
| Now first you deny that a woman's a sieve | E |
| I say that she is What reason d'ye give | E |
| Because she lets out more than she takes in | F |
| Is't that you advance for't you are still to begin | F |
| Your major and minor I both can refute | G |
| I'll teach you hereafter with whom to dispute | G |
| A sieve keeps in half deny't if you can | H |
| D Adzucks I mistook it who thought of the bran | H |
| I tell you in short sir you should have a pair o' stocks | I |
| For thinking to palm on your friend such a paradox | I |
| Indeed I confess at the close you grew better | J |
| But you light from your coach when you finish'd your letter | J |
| Your thing which you say wants interpretation | K |
| What's name for a maiden the first man's damnation | K |
| A damsel Adam's hell ay there I have hit it | L |
| Just as you conceived it just so have I writ it | L |
| Since this I've discover'd I'll make you to know it | L |
| That now I'm your Phoebus and you are my poet | M |
| But if you interpret the two lines that follow | N |
| I'll again be your poet and you my Apollo | N |
| Why a noble lord's dog and my school house this weather | J |
| Make up the best catch when they're coupled together | J |
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| From my Ringsend car Sept past in the morning on a repetition day | O |
Jonathan Swift
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