To Stella Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGHIJKLMMNN KKOOMMPPNNQQRSTTUU| WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH MARCH BUT NOT ON THE SUBJECT WHEN I WAS SICK IN BED | A |
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| Tormented with incessant pains | B |
| Can I devise poetic strains | B |
| Time was when I could yearly pay | C |
| My verse to Stella's native day | C |
| But now unable grown to write | D |
| I grieve she ever saw the light | D |
| Ungrateful since to her I owe | E |
| That I these pains can undergo | E |
| She tends me like an humble slave | F |
| And when indecently I rave | F |
| When out my brutish passions break | G |
| With gall in every word I speak | H |
| She with soft speech my anguish cheers | I |
| Or melts my passions down with tears | J |
| Although 'tis easy to descry | K |
| She wants assistance more than I | L |
| Yet seems to feel my pains alone | M |
| And is a stoic in her own | M |
| When among scholars can we find | N |
| So soft and yet so firm a mind | N |
| All accidents of life conspire | K |
| To raise up Stella's virtue higher | K |
| Or else to introduce the rest | O |
| Which had been latent in her breast | O |
| Her firmness who could e'er have known | M |
| Had she not evils of her own | M |
| Her kindness who could ever guess | P |
| Had not her friends been in distress | P |
| Whatever base returns you find | N |
| From me dear Stella still be kind | N |
| In your own heart you'll reap the fruit | Q |
| Though I continue still a brute | Q |
| But when I once am out of pain | R |
| I promise to be good again | S |
| Meantime your other juster friends | T |
| Shall for my follies make amends | T |
| So may we long continue thus | U |
| Admiring you you pitying us | U |
Jonathan Swift
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