On Stephen Duck The Thresher, And Favourite Poet; A Quibbling Epigram Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD| The thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail | A |
| The proverb says no fence against a flail | A |
| From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains | B |
| For which her majesty allows him grains | B |
| Though 'tis confest that those who ever saw | C |
| His poems think them all not worth a straw | C |
| Thrice happy Duck employ'd in threshing stubble | D |
| Thy toil is lessen'd and thy profits double | D |
Jonathan Swift
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