Traulus. Part Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHIEEJJKK LLMMNOPPQQRRSTUUVVWW XYDDZZIIPPA2A2B2B2QQ| Traulus of amphibious breed | A |
| Motley fruit of mongrel seed | A |
| By the dam from lordlings sprung | B |
| By the sire exhaled from dung | B |
| Think on every vice in both | C |
| Look on him and see their growth | C |
| View him on the mother's side | D |
| Fill'd with falsehood spleen and pride | D |
| Positive and overbearing | E |
| Changing still and still adhering | E |
| Spiteful peevish rude untoward | F |
| Fierce in tongue in heart a coward | G |
| When his friends he most is hard on | H |
| Cringing comes to beg their pardon | I |
| Reputation ever tearing | E |
| Ever dearest friendship swearing | E |
| Judgment weak and passion strong | J |
| Always various always wrong | J |
| Provocation never waits | K |
| Where he loves or where he hates | K |
| Talks whate'er comes in his head | L |
| Wishes it were all unsaid | L |
| Let me now the vices trace | M |
| From the father's scoundrel race | M |
| Who could give the looby such airs | N |
| Were they masons were they butchers | O |
| Herald lend the Muse an answer | P |
| From his atavus and grandsire | P |
| This was dexterous at his trowel | Q |
| That was bred to kill a cow well | Q |
| Hence the greasy clumsy mien | R |
| In his dress and figure seen | R |
| Hence the mean and sordid soul | S |
| Like his body rank and foul | T |
| Hence that wild suspicious peep | U |
| Like a rogue that steals a sheep | U |
| Hence he learnt the butcher's guile | V |
| How to cut your throat and smile | V |
| Like a butcher doom'd for life | W |
| In his mouth to wear a knife | W |
| Hence he draws his daily food | X |
| From his tenants' vital blood | Y |
| Lastly let his gifts be tried | D |
| Borrow'd from the mason's side | D |
| Some perhaps may think him able | Z |
| In the state to build a Babel | Z |
| Could we place him in a station | I |
| To destroy the old foundation | I |
| True indeed I should be gladder | P |
| Could he learn to mount a ladder | P |
| May he at his latter end | A2 |
| Mount alive and dead descend | A2 |
| In him tell me which prevail | B2 |
| Female vices most or male | B2 |
| What produced him can you tell | Q |
| Human race or imps of Hell | Q |
Jonathan Swift
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