The Duke's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKKLL MMFFFFMMNNOOEEMMFFAA MMMMMMMMPPQQCC| BY DR SWIFT Dean Smedley's Petition To The Duke Of Grafton | A |
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| Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines | B |
| Where wit in all its glory shines | B |
| Where compliments with all their pride | C |
| Are by their numbers dignified | C |
| I hope to make you yet as clean | D |
| As that same Viz St Patrick's dean | D |
| I'll give thee surplice verge and stall | E |
| And may be something else withal | E |
| And were you not so good a writer | F |
| I should present you with a mitre | G |
| Write worse then if you can be wise | H |
| Believe me 'tis the way to rise | H |
| Talk not of making of thy nest | I |
| Ah never lay thy head to rest | I |
| That head so well with wisdom fraught | J |
| That writes without the toil of thought | J |
| While others rack their busy brains | K |
| You are not in the least at pains | K |
| Down to your dean'ry now repair | L |
| And build a castle in the air | L |
| I'm sure a man of your fine sense | M |
| Can do it with a small expense | M |
| There your dear spouse and you together | F |
| May breathe your bellies full of ether | F |
| When Lady Luna is your neighbour | F |
| She'll help your wife when she's in labour | F |
| Well skill'd in midwife artifices | M |
| For she herself oft falls in pieces | M |
| There you shall see a raree show | N |
| Will make you scorn this world below | N |
| When you behold the milky way | O |
| As white as snow as bright as day | O |
| The glittering constellations roll | E |
| About the grinding arctic pole | E |
| The lovely tingling in your ears | M |
| Wrought by the music of the spheres | M |
| Your spouse shall then no longer hector | F |
| You need not fear a curtain lecture | F |
| Nor shall she think that she is undone | A |
| For quitting her beloved London | A |
| When she's exalted in the skies | M |
| She'll never think of mutton pies | M |
| When you're advanced above Dean Viz | M |
| You'll never think of Goody Griz | M |
| But ever ever live at ease | M |
| And strive and strive your wife to please | M |
| In her you'll centre all your joys | M |
| And get ten thousand girls and boys | M |
| Ten thousand girls and boys you'll get | P |
| And they like stars shall rise and set | P |
| While you and spouse transform'd shall soon | Q |
| Be a new sun and a new moon | Q |
| Nor shall you strive your horns to hide | C |
| For then your horns shall be your pride | C |
Jonathan Swift
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