The Dean's Complaint, Translated And Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCCDDEFFGGHHDOCTOR Deaf giddy helpless left alone | A |
ANSWER Except the first the fault's your own | A |
DOCTOR To all my friends a burden grown | A |
ANSWER Because to few you will be shewn | A |
Give them good wine and meat to stuff | B |
You may have company enough | B |
DOCTOR No more I hear my church's bell | C |
Than if it rang out for my knell | C |
ANSWER Then write and read 'twill do as well | C |
DOCTOR At thunder now no more I start | D |
Than at the rumbling of a cart | D |
ANSWER Think then of thunder when you f t | E |
DOCTOR Nay what's incredible alack | F |
No more I hear a woman's clack | F |
ANSWER A woman's clack if I have skill | G |
Sounds somewhat like a throwster's mill | G |
But louder than a bell or thunder | H |
That does I own increase my wonder | H |
Jonathan Swift
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