On Ink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH CICI JKJJ LMLM| I am jet black as you may see | A |
| The son of pitch and gloomy night | B |
| Yet all that know me will agree | A |
| I'm dead except I live in light | B |
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| Sometimes in panegyric high | C |
| Like lofty Pindar I can soar | D |
| And raise a virgin to the sky | C |
| Or sink her to a pocky whore | D |
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| My blood this day is very sweet | E |
| To morrow of a bitter juice | F |
| Like milk 'tis cried about the street | E |
| And so applied to different use | F |
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| Most wondrous is my magic power | G |
| For with one colour I can paint | H |
| I'll make the devil a saint this hour | G |
| Next make a devil of a saint | H |
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| Through distant regions I can fly | C |
| Provide me but with paper wings | I |
| And fairly show a reason why | C |
| There should be quarrels among kings | I |
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| And after all you'll think it odd | J |
| When learned doctors will dispute | K |
| That I should point the word of God | J |
| And show where they can best confute | J |
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| Let lawyers bawl and strain their throats | L |
| 'Tis I that must the lands convey | M |
| And strip their clients to their coats | L |
| Nay give their very souls away | M |
Jonathan Swift
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