The Dog And Thief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI IJIJ| Quoth the thief to the dog let me into your door | A |
| And I'll give you these delicate bits | B |
| Quoth the dog I shall then be more villain than you're | C |
| And besides must be out of my wits | B |
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| Your delicate bits will not serve me a meal | D |
| But my master each day gives me bread | E |
| You'll fly when you get what you came here to steal | D |
| And I must be hang'd in your stead | E |
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| The stockjobber thus from 'Change Alley goes down | F |
| And tips you the freeman a wink | G |
| Let me have but your vote to serve for the town | F |
| And here is a guinea to drink | G |
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| Says the freeman your guinea to night would be spent | H |
| Your offers of bribery cease | I |
| I'll vote for my landlord to whom I pay rent | H |
| Or else I may forfeit my lease | I |
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| From London they come silly people to chouse | I |
| Their lands and their faces unknown | J |
| Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament house | I |
| That would turn a man out of his own | J |
Jonathan Swift
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