To Stella On Her Birth-day, 1721-2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| While Stella to your lasting praise | A |
| The Muse her annual tribute pays | A |
| While I assign myself a task | B |
| Which you expect but scorn to ask | B |
| If I perform this task with pain | C |
| Let me of partial fate complain | C |
| You every year the debt enlarge | D |
| I grow less equal to the charge | D |
| In you each virtue brighter shines | E |
| But my poetic vein declines | E |
| My harp will soon in vain be strung | F |
| And all your virtues left unsung | F |
| For none among the upstart race | G |
| Of poets dare assume my place | G |
| Your worth will be to them unknown | H |
| They must have Stellas of their own | H |
| And thus my stock of wit decay'd | I |
| I dying leave the debt unpaid | I |
| Unless Delany as my heir | J |
| Will answer for the whole arrear | J |
Jonathan Swift
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