Verses On Two Celebrated Modern Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIDD| Behold those monarch oaks that rise | A |
| With lofty branches to the skies | A |
| Have large proportion'd roots that grow | B |
| With equal longitude below | B |
| Two bards that now in fashion reign | C |
| Most aptly this device explain | C |
| If this to clouds and stars will venture | D |
| That creeps as far to reach the centre | D |
| Or more to show the thing I mean | E |
| Have you not o'er a saw pit seen | E |
| A skill'd mechanic that has stood | F |
| High on a length of prostrate wood | F |
| Who hired a subterraneous friend | G |
| To take his iron by the end | G |
| But which excell'd was never found | H |
| The man above or under ground | H |
| The moral is so plain to hit | I |
| That had I been the god of wit | I |
| Then in a saw pit and wet weather | D |
| Should Young and Philips drudge together | D |
Jonathan Swift
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