Probatur Aliter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCD EE BB AA FF GH II II JK LL MM NN II OO PP QQ EE RR EE SS TT JN| A long ear'd beast and a field house for cattle | A |
| Among the coals doth often rattle | A |
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| A long ear'd beast a bird that prates | B |
| The bridegrooms' first gift to their mates | B |
| Is by all pious Christians thought | C |
| In clergymen the greatest fault | D |
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| A long ear'd beast and woman of Endor | E |
| If your wife be a scold that will mend her | E |
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| With a long ear'd beast and medicine's use | B |
| Cooks make their fowl look tight and spruce | B |
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| A long ear'd beast and holy fable | A |
| Strengthens the shoes of half the rabble | A |
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| A long ear'd beast and Rhenish wine | F |
| Lies in the lap of ladies fine | F |
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| A long ear'd beast and Flanders College | G |
| Is Dr T l to my knowledge | H |
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| A long ear'd beast and building knight | I |
| Censorious people do in spite | I |
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| A long ear'd beast and bird of night | I |
| We sinners art too apt to slight | I |
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| A long ear'd beast and shameful vermin | J |
| A judge will eat though clad in ermine | K |
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| A long ear'd beast and Irish cart | L |
| Can leave a mark and give a smart | L |
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| A long ear'd beast in mud to lie | M |
| No bird in air so swift can fly | M |
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| A long ear'd beast and a sputt'ring old Whig | N |
| I wish he were in it and dancing a jig | N |
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| A long ear'd beast and liquor to write | I |
| Is a damnable smell both morning and night | I |
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| A long ear'd beast and the child of a sheep | O |
| At Whist they will make a desperate sweep | O |
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| A beast long ear'd and till midnight you stay | P |
| Will cover a house much better than clay | P |
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| A long ear'd beast and the drink you love best | Q |
| You call him a sloven in earnest for jest | Q |
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| A long ear'd beast and the sixteenth letter | E |
| I'd not look at all unless I look'd better | E |
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| A long ear'd beast give me and eggs unsound | R |
| Or else I will not ride one inch of ground | R |
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| A long ear'd beast another name for jeer | E |
| To ladies' skins there nothing comes so near | E |
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| A long ear'd beast and kind noise of a cat | S |
| Is useful in journeys take notice of that | S |
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| A long ear'd beast and what seasons your beef | T |
| On such an occasion the law gives relief | T |
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| A long ear'd beast a thing that force must drive in | J |
| Bears up his house that's of his own contriving | N |
Jonathan Swift
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