Elegy Upon Tiger Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFDEGHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQRRSS T UUVW| Her dead lady's joy and comfort | A |
| Who departed this life | B |
| The last day of March | C |
| To the great joy of Bryan | D |
| That his antagonist is gone | E |
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| And is poor Tiger laid at last so low | F |
| O day of sorrow Day of dismal woe | F |
| Bloodhounds or spaniels lap dogs 'tis all one | D |
| When Death once whistles snap away they're gone | E |
| See how she lies and hangs her lifeless ears | G |
| Bathed in her mournful lady's tears | H |
| Dumb is her throat and wagless is her tail | I |
| Doomed to the grave to Death's eternal jail | I |
| In a few days this lovely creature must | J |
| First turn to clay and then be changed to dust | J |
| That mouth which used its lady's mouth to lick | K |
| Must yield its jaw bones to the worms to pick | K |
| That mouth which used the partridge wing to eat | L |
| Must give its palate to the worms to eat | L |
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| Methinks I see her now in Charon's boat | M |
| Bark at the Stygian fish which round it float | M |
| While Cerberus alarmed to hear the sound | N |
| Makes Hell's wide concave bellow all around | N |
| She sees him not but hears him through the dark | O |
| And valiantly returns him bark for bark | O |
| But now she trembles though a ghost she dreads | P |
| To see a dog with three large yawning heads | P |
| Spare her you hell hounds case your frightful paws | Q |
| And let poor Tiger 'scape your furious jaws | Q |
| Let her go safe to the Elysian plains | R |
| Where Hylax barks among the Mantuan swains | R |
| There let her frisk about her new found love | S |
| She loved a dog when she was here above | S |
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| The Epitaph | T |
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| Here lies beneath this marble | U |
| An animal could bark or warble | U |
| Sometimes a bitch sometimes a bird | V |
| Could eat a tart or eat a t | W |
Jonathan Swift
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