The History Of Vanbrugh's House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGBBHHIIJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTT UVWWXYZZ| A | |
| - | |
| When Mother Cludd had rose from play | B |
| And call'd to take the cards away | B |
| Van saw but seem'd not to regard | C |
| How Miss pick'd every painted card | C |
| And busy both with hand and eye | D |
| Soon rear'd a house two stories high | D |
| Van's genius without thought or lecture | E |
| Is hugely turn'd to architecture | E |
| He view'd the edifice and smiled | F |
| Vow'd it was pretty for a child | F |
| It was so perfect in its kind | G |
| He kept the model in his mind | G |
| But when he found the boys at play | B |
| And saw them dabbling in their clay | B |
| He stood behind a stall to lurk | H |
| And mark the progress of their work | H |
| With true delight observed them all | I |
| Raking up mud to build a wall | I |
| The plan he much admired and took | J |
| The model in his table book | J |
| Thought himself now exactly skill'd | K |
| And so resolved a house to build | K |
| A real house with rooms and stairs | L |
| Five times at least as big as theirs | L |
| Taller than Miss's by two yards | M |
| Not a sham thing of play or cards | M |
| And so he did for in a while | N |
| He built up such a monstrous pile | N |
| That no two chairmen could be found | O |
| Able to lift it from the ground | O |
| Still at Whitehall it stands in view | P |
| Just in the place where first it grew | P |
| There all the little schoolboys run | Q |
| Envying to see themselves outdone | Q |
| From such deep rudiments as these | R |
| Van is become by due degrees | R |
| For building famed and justly reckon'd | S |
| At court Vitruvius the Second | S |
| No wonder since wise authors show | T |
| That best foundations must be low | T |
| And now the duke has wisely ta'en him | U |
| To be his architect at Blenheim | V |
| But raillery at once apart | W |
| If this rule holds in every art | W |
| Or if his grace were no more skill'd in | X |
| The art of battering walls than building | Y |
| We might expect to see next year | Z |
| A mouse trap man chief engineer | Z |
Jonathan Swift
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Horace, Book Iv, Ode Ix; Addressed To Humphry French, Esq.[1] Late Lord Mayor Of Dublin Poem
Epigram Added By Stella[1] Poem>>
Write your comment about The History Of Vanbrugh's House poem by Jonathan Swift
Best Poems of Jonathan Swift