The Dean's Complaint, Translated And Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCCDDEFFGGHH

DOCTOR Deaf giddy helpless left aloneA
ANSWER Except the first the fault's your ownA
DOCTOR To all my friends a burden grownA
ANSWER Because to few you will be shewnA
Give them good wine and meat to stuffB
You may have company enoughB
DOCTOR No more I hear my church's bellC
Than if it rang out for my knellC
ANSWER Then write and read 'twill do as wellC
DOCTOR At thunder now no more I startD
Than at the rumbling of a cartD
ANSWER Think then of thunder when you f tE
DOCTOR Nay what's incredible alackF
No more I hear a woman's clackF
ANSWER A woman's clack if I have skillG
Sounds somewhat like a throwster's millG
But louder than a bell or thunderH
That does I own increase my wonderH

Jonathan Swift



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