Tim And The Fables Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAADDAAEEAAFCAA AAAAGGHHAAAAIJ| My meaning will be best unravell'd | A |
| When I premise that Tim has travell'd | A |
| In Lucas's by chance there lay | B |
| The Fables writ by Mr Gay | B |
| Tim set the volume on a table | C |
| Read over here and there a fable | C |
| And found as he the pages twirl'd | A |
| The monkey who had seen the world | A |
| For Tonson had to help the sale | D |
| Prefix'd a cut to every tale | D |
| The monkey was completely drest | A |
| The beau in all his airs exprest | A |
| Tim with surprise and pleasure staring | E |
| Ran to the glass and then comparing | E |
| His own sweet figure with the print | A |
| Distinguish'd every feature in't | A |
| The twist the squeeze the rump the fidge in all | F |
| Just as they look'd in the original | C |
| By says Tim and let a f t | A |
| This graver understood his art | A |
| 'Tis a true copy I'll say that for't | A |
| I well remember when I sat for't | A |
| My very face at first I knew it | A |
| Just in this dress the painter drew it | A |
| Tim with his likeness deeply smitten | G |
| Would read what underneath was written | G |
| The merry tale with moral grave | H |
| He now began to storm and rave | H |
| The cursed villain now I see | A |
| This was a libel meant at me | A |
| These scribblers grow so bold of late | A |
| Against us ministers of state | A |
| Such Jacobites as he deserve | I |
| D n me I say they ought to starve | J |
Jonathan Swift
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