Epistle To Lord Hervey On The King's Birthday From The Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDDDEEEFFGGGGGGHHGG IIAAGGJJKKLM| Where I enjoy in contemplative chamber | A |
| Lutes laurels seas of milk and ships of amber | A |
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| Through shining crowds you now make way | B |
| With sideling bow and golden key | C |
| While wrapped in spleen and easy chair | D |
| For all this pomp so small my care | D |
| I scarce remember who are there | D |
| Yet in brocade I can suppose | E |
| The potent Knight whose presence goes | E |
| At least a yard before his nose | E |
| And majesty with sweeping train | F |
| That does so many yards contain | F |
| Superior to her waiting nymphs | G |
| As lobster to attendant shrimps | G |
| I do not ask one word of news | G |
| Which country damsels much amuse | G |
| If a new batch of Lords appears | G |
| After a tour of half six years | G |
| With foreign years to grace the nation | H |
| The Maids of Honour's admiration | H |
| Whose bright improvements give surprise | G |
| To their own lady mother's eyes | G |
| Improvements such as colts might show | I |
| Were mares so mad to let them go | I |
| Their limbs perhaps a little stronger | A |
| Their manes and tails grown somewhat longer | A |
| I would not hear of ball room scuffles | G |
| Nor what new whims adorn the ruffles | G |
| This meek epistle comes to tell | J |
| On Monday I in town shall dwell | J |
| Where if you please to condescend | K |
| In Cavendish square to see your friend | K |
| I shall disclose to you alone | L |
| Such thoughts as ne'er were thought upon | M |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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