On Stella's Birthday, 1719 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHHII| Stella this Day is thirty four | A |
| We shan't dispute a Year or more | A |
| However Stella be not troubled | B |
| Although thy Size and Years are doubled | B |
| Since first I saw Thee at Sixteen | C |
| The brightest Virgin on the Green | C |
| So little is thy Form declin'd | D |
| Made up so largely in thy Mind | D |
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| Oh woud it please the Gods to split | E |
| Thy Beauty Size and Years and Wit | E |
| No Age could furnish out a Pair | F |
| Of Nymphs so graceful Wise and fair | F |
| With half the Lustre of your Eyes | G |
| With half your Wit your Years and Size | G |
| And then before it grew too late | H |
| How should I beg of gentle Fate | H |
| That either Nymph might have her Swain | I |
| To split my Worship too in twain | I |
Jonathan Swift
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