Drapier's-hill.[1] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIEE| We give the world to understand | A |
| Our thriving Dean has purchased land | A |
| A purchase which will bring him clear | B |
| Above his rent four pounds a year | B |
| Provided to improve the ground | C |
| He will but add two hundred pound | C |
| And from his endless hoarded store | D |
| To build a house five hundred more | D |
| Sir Arthur too shall have his will | E |
| And call the mansion Drapier's Hill | E |
| That when a nation long enslaved | F |
| Forgets by whom it once was saved | F |
| When none the Drapier's praise shall sing | G |
| His signs aloft no longer swing | G |
| His medals and his prints forgotten | H |
| And all his handkerchiefs are rotten | H |
| His famous letters made waste paper | I |
| This hill may keep the name of Drapier | I |
| In spite of envy flourish still | E |
| And Drapier's vie with Cooper's Hill | E |
Jonathan Swift
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