On A Shadow In A Glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGGHHIIFFIIJJF KLLMMNN OOPPQQRRRRRSRRTTIIUU II| By something form'd I nothing am | A |
| Yet everything that you can name | B |
| In no place have I ever been | C |
| Yet everywhere I may be seen | D |
| In all things false yet always true | E |
| I'm still the same but ever new | E |
| Lifeless life's perfect form I wear | F |
| Can show a nose eye tongue or ear | G |
| Yet neither smell see taste or hear | G |
| All shapes and features I can boast | H |
| No flesh no bones no blood no ghost | H |
| All colours without paint put on | I |
| And change like the cameleon | I |
| Swiftly I come and enter there | F |
| Where not a chink lets in the air | F |
| Like thought I'm in a moment gone | I |
| Nor can I ever be alone | I |
| All things on earth I imitate | J |
| Faster than nature can create | J |
| Sometimes imperial robes I wear | F |
| Anon in beggar's rags appear | K |
| A giant now and straight an elf | L |
| I'm every one but ne'er myself | L |
| Ne'er sad I mourn ne'er glad rejoice | M |
| I move my lips but want a voice | M |
| I ne'er was born nor e'er can die | N |
| Then pr'ythee tell me what am I | N |
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| Most things by me do rise and fall | O |
| And as I please they're great and small | O |
| Invading foes without resistance | P |
| With ease I make to keep their distance | P |
| Again as I'm disposed the foe | Q |
| Will come though not a foot they go | Q |
| Both mountains woods and hills and rocks | R |
| And gamesome goats and fleecy flocks | R |
| And lowing herds and piping swains | R |
| Come dancing to me o'er the plains | R |
| The greatest whale that swims the sea | R |
| Does instantly my power obey | S |
| In vain from me the sailor flies | R |
| The quickest ship I can surprise | R |
| And turn it as I have a mind | T |
| And move it against tide and wind | T |
| Nay bring me here the tallest man | I |
| I'll squeeze him to a little span | I |
| Or bring a tender child and pliant | U |
| You'll see me stretch him to a giant | U |
| Nor shall they in the least complain | I |
| Because my magic gives no pain | I |
Jonathan Swift
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