The Furniture Of A Woman's Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDDEEFFBBGHIIJJ KKLFMMNNOOPPQQLLNNRR SSNNTTUULLVVWWNNXXJJ YYJJ| A set of phrases learn'd by rote | A |
| A passion for a scarlet coat | A |
| When at a play to laugh or cry | B |
| Yet cannot tell the reason why | B |
| Never to hold her tongue a minute | C |
| While all she prates has nothing in it | D |
| Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit | D |
| And take his nonsense all for wit | D |
| Her learning mounts to read a song | E |
| But half the words pronouncing wrong | E |
| Has every repartee in store | F |
| She spoke ten thousand times before | F |
| Can ready compliments supply | B |
| On all occasions cut and dry | B |
| Such hatred to a parson's gown | G |
| The sight would put her in a swoon | H |
| For conversation well endued | I |
| She calls it witty to be rude | I |
| And placing raillery in railing | J |
| Will tell aloud your greatest failing | J |
| Nor make a scruple to expose | K |
| Your bandy leg or crooked nose | K |
| Can at her morning tea run o'er | L |
| The scandal of the day before | F |
| Improving hourly in her skill | M |
| To cheat and wrangle at quadrille | M |
| In choosing lace a critic nice | N |
| Knows to a groat the lowest price | N |
| Can in her female clubs dispute | O |
| What linen best the silk will suit | O |
| What colours each complexion match | P |
| And where with art to place a patch | P |
| If chance a mouse creeps in her sight | Q |
| Can finely counterfeit a fright | Q |
| So sweetly screams if it comes near her | L |
| She ravishes all hearts to hear her | L |
| Can dext'rously her husband teaze | N |
| By taking fits whene'er she please | N |
| By frequent practice learns the trick | R |
| At proper seasons to be sick | R |
| Thinks nothing gives one airs so pretty | S |
| At once creating love and pity | S |
| If Molly happens to be careless | N |
| And but neglects to warm her hair lace | N |
| She gets a cold as sure as death | T |
| And vows she scarce can fetch her breath | T |
| Admires how modest women can | U |
| Be so robustious like a man | U |
| In party furious to her power | L |
| A bitter Whig or Tory sour | L |
| Her arguments directly tend | V |
| Against the side she would defend | V |
| Will prove herself a Tory plain | W |
| From principles the Whigs maintain | W |
| And to defend the Whiggish cause | N |
| Her topics from the Tories draws | N |
| O yes if any man can find | X |
| More virtues in a woman's mind | X |
| Let them be sent to Mrs Harding | J |
| She'll pay the charges to a farthing | J |
| Take notice she has my commission | Y |
| To add them in the next edition | Y |
| They may outsell a better thing | J |
| So holla boys God save the King | J |
Jonathan Swift
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