Stella At Wood Park, A House Of Charles Ford, Esq., Near Dublin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BBDDEECCCCFFBBGGHHII JJBBKKLMNNLLOOBBOOPP QQDRBOSSTTCCUUCCBBBB VVWWSSXXYZQQDDA2A2CC BBJJIIWWKKCCA2A2| A | |
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| cuicumque nocere volebat | B |
| Vestimenta dabat pretiosa | C |
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| Don Carlos in a merry spight | B |
| Did Stella to his house invite | B |
| He entertain'd her half a year | D |
| With generous wines and costly cheer | D |
| Don Carlos made her chief director | E |
| That she might o'er the servants hector | E |
| In half a week the dame grew nice | C |
| Got all things at the highest price | C |
| Now at the table head she sits | C |
| Presented with the nicest bits | C |
| She look'd on partridges with scorn | F |
| Except they tasted of the corn | F |
| A haunch of ven'son made her sweat | B |
| Unless it had the right fumette | B |
| Don Carlos earnestly would beg | G |
| Dear Madam try this pigeon's leg | G |
| Was happy when he could prevail | H |
| To make her only touch a quail | H |
| Through candle light she view'd the wine | I |
| To see that ev'ry glass was fine | I |
| At last grown prouder than the devil | J |
| With feeding high and treatment civil | J |
| Don Carlos now began to find | B |
| His malice work as he design'd | B |
| The winter sky began to frown | K |
| Poor Stella must pack off to town | K |
| From purling streams and fountains bubbling | L |
| To Liffey's stinking tide in Dublin | M |
| From wholesome exercise and air | N |
| To sossing in an easy chair | N |
| From stomach sharp and hearty feeding | L |
| To piddle like a lady breeding | L |
| From ruling there the household singly | O |
| To be directed here by Dingley | O |
| From every day a lordly banquet | B |
| To half a joint and God be thank it | B |
| From every meal Pontac in plenty | O |
| To half a pint one day in twenty | O |
| From Ford attending at her call | P |
| To visits of Archdeacon Wall | P |
| From Ford who thinks of nothing mean | Q |
| To the poor doings of the Dean | Q |
| From growing richer with good cheer | D |
| To running out by starving here | R |
| But now arrives the dismal day | B |
| She must return to Ormond Quay | O |
| The coachman stopt she look'd and swore | S |
| The rascal had mistook the door | S |
| At coming in you saw her stoop | T |
| The entry brush'd against her hoop | T |
| Each moment rising in her airs | C |
| She curst the narrow winding stairs | C |
| Began a thousand faults to spy | U |
| The ceiling hardly six feet high | U |
| The smutty wainscot full of cracks | C |
| And half the chairs with broken backs | C |
| Her quarter's out at Lady day | B |
| She vows she will no longer stay | B |
| In lodgings like a poor Grisette | B |
| While there are houses to be let | B |
| Howe'er to keep her spirits up | V |
| She sent for company to sup | V |
| When all the while you might remark | W |
| She strove in vain to ape Wood Park | W |
| Two bottles call'd for half her store | S |
| The cupboard could contain but four | S |
| A supper worthy of herself | X |
| Five nothings in five plates of delf | X |
| Thus for a week the farce went on | Y |
| When all her country savings gone | Z |
| She fell into her former scene | Q |
| Small beer a herring and the Dean | Q |
| Thus far in jest though now I fear | D |
| You think my jesting too severe | D |
| But poets when a hint is new | A2 |
| Regard not whether false or true | A2 |
| Yet raillery gives no offence | C |
| Where truth has not the least pretence | C |
| Nor can be more securely placed | B |
| Than on a nymph of Stella's taste | B |
| I must confess your wine and vittle | J |
| I was too hard upon a little | J |
| Your table neat your linen fine | I |
| And though in miniature you shine | I |
| Yet when you sigh to leave Wood Park | W |
| The scene the welcome and the spark | W |
| To languish in this odious town | K |
| And pull your haughty stomach down | K |
| We think you quite mistake the case | C |
| The virtue lies not in the place | C |
| For though my raillery were true | A2 |
| A cottage is Wood Park with you | A2 |
Jonathan Swift
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