The Answer, By Dr. Sheridan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEEDDDDDDCCDDFFGG DDHICC| Sir | A |
| - | |
| I thank you for your comedies | B |
| I'll stay and read 'em now at home a days | C |
| Because Parcus wrote but sorrily | D |
| Thy notes I'll read Lambinus thoroughly | D |
| And then I shall be stoutly set a gog | E |
| To challenge every Irish Pedagogue | E |
| I like your nice epistle critical | D |
| Which does in threefold rhymes so witty fall | D |
| Upon the comic dram' and tragedy | D |
| Your notion's right but verses maggotty | D |
| 'Tis but an hour since I heard a man swear it | D |
| The Devil himself could hardly answer it | D |
| As for your friend the sage Euripides | C |
| I believe you give him now the slip o' days | C |
| But mum for that pray come a Saturday | D |
| And dine with me you can't a better day | D |
| I'll give you nothing but a mutton chop | F |
| Some nappy mellow'd ale with rotten hop | F |
| A pint of wine as good as Falern' | G |
| Which we poor masters God knows all earn | G |
| We'll have a friend or two sir at table | D |
| Right honest men for few're comeatable | D |
| Then when our liquor makes us talkative | H |
| We'll to the fields and take a walk at eve | I |
| Because I'm troubled much with laziness | C |
| These rhymes I've chosen for their easiness | C |
Jonathan Swift
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