On A Printer's[1] Being Sent To Newgate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBDDEEFFBB| Better we all were in our graves | A |
| Than live in slavery to slaves | A |
| Worse than the anarchy at sea | B |
| Where fishes on each other prey | C |
| Where every trout can make as high rants | B |
| O'er his inferiors as our tyrants | B |
| And swagger while the coast is clear | D |
| But should a lordly pike appear | D |
| Away you see the varlet scud | E |
| Or hide his coward snout in mud | E |
| Thus if a gudgeon meet a roach | F |
| He dares not venture to approach | F |
| Yet still has impudence to rise | B |
| And like Domitian leap at flies | B |
Jonathan Swift
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