A Character Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHHIIJJKKLL MMMMNNOOPP| Though a strong vanity may you persuade | A |
| You are not for a politician made | A |
| Your tropes are drawn from Robin Walpole's head | B |
| Your sense is but repeating what he said | B |
| A useful puppy eminently known | C |
| As proud to father what he will not own | C |
| Some arguments he leaves you to expose | D |
| Some valets flutter in my lord's old clothes | E |
| But should he strip you of his borrow'd sense | F |
| How poorly thin your boasted eloquence | G |
| Know your own talents better I advise | H |
| Be brisk yet dull but aim not to look wise | H |
| In low insipid rhymes place your delight | I |
| Laugh without jests and without reading write | I |
| Despis'd men in ladies' ruelles sit | J |
| Where country coquettes bolster up your wit | J |
| May all your minuets applauses meet | K |
| An able coxcomb only in your feet | K |
| By fawning lies in leagues with court knaves grow | L |
| And smile on beauties whom you do not know | L |
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| Then acting all the coyness of a lover | M |
| Your no intrigue endeavour to discover | M |
| Aiming at wit in many an evil hour | M |
| Have the perpetual will without the power | M |
| Conceit for breeding rude for easy take | N |
| Horseplay for wit and noise for mirth mistake | N |
| Love's perfect joys to perfect men belong | O |
| Seek you but the occasion for a song | O |
| Thus to the end of life may you remain | P |
| A merry blockhead treacherous and vain | P |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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