On A Corkscrew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHHII JJKKLMNNOOEEPPQQRR| Though I alas a prisoner be | A |
| My trade is prisoners to set free | A |
| No slave his lord's commands obeys | B |
| With such insinuating ways | B |
| My genius piercing sharp and bright | C |
| Wherein the men of wit delight | C |
| The clergy keep me for their ease | D |
| And turn and wind me as they please | D |
| A new and wondrous art I show | E |
| Of raising spirits from below | E |
| In scarlet some and some in white | C |
| They rise walk round yet never fright | C |
| In at each mouth the spirits pass | F |
| Distinctly seen as through a glass | F |
| O'er head and body make a rout | G |
| And drive at last all secrets out | G |
| And still the more I show my art | H |
| The more they open every heart | H |
| A greater chemist none than I | I |
| Who from materials hard and dry | I |
| Have taught men to extract with skill | J |
| More precious juice than from a still | J |
| Although I'm often out of case | K |
| I'm not ashamed to show my face | K |
| Though at the tables of the great | L |
| I near the sideboard take my seat | M |
| Yet the plain 'squire when dinner's done | N |
| Is never pleased till I make one | N |
| He kindly bids me near him stand | O |
| And often takes me by the hand | O |
| I twice a day a hunting go | E |
| Nor ever fail to seize my foe | E |
| And when I have him by the poll | P |
| I drag him upwards from his hole | P |
| Though some are of so stubborn kind | Q |
| I'm forced to leave a limb behind | Q |
| I hourly wait some fatal end | R |
| For I can break but scorn to bend | R |
Jonathan Swift
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