Melinda's Complaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJKJKLMNM OPOOQRORSOTOUVUVBTBT OTOTTBTBWUWUXYXY| By the side of a glimmering fire | A |
| Melinda sat pensively down | B |
| Impatient of rural esquire | C |
| And vex'd to be absent from Town | B |
| The cricket from under the grate | D |
| With a chirp to her sighs did reply | E |
| And the kitten as grave as a cat | F |
| Sat mournfully purring hard by | E |
| Alas silly maid that I was | G |
| Thus sadly complaining she cried | H |
| When first I forsook that dear place | I |
| 'T were better by far I had died | H |
| How gaily I pass'd the long day | J |
| In a round of continu'd delight | K |
| Park visits assemblies and play | J |
| And quadrille to enliven the night | K |
| How simple was I to believe | L |
| Delusive poetical dreams | M |
| The flattering landskips they give | N |
| Of groves meads and murmuring streams | M |
| Bleak mountains and wild staring rocks | O |
| Are the wretched result of my pains | P |
| The swains greater brutes than their flocks | O |
| And the nymphs as polite as the swains | O |
| What though I have skill to ensnare | Q |
| Where Smarts in bright circles abound | R |
| What though at St James's at prayers | O |
| Beaux ogle devoutly around | R |
| Fond virgin thy power is lost | S |
| On a race of rude Hottentot brutes | O |
| What glory in being the toast | T |
| Of noisy dull 'squires in boots | O |
| And thou my companion so dear | U |
| My all that is left of relief | V |
| Whatever I suffer forbear | U |
| Forbear to dissuade me from grief | V |
| 'Tis in vain then you'll say to repine | B |
| At ills which cannot be redress'd | T |
| But in sorrows so pungent as mine | B |
| To be patient alas is a test | T |
| If further to soothe my distress | O |
| Thy tender compassion is led | T |
| Call Jenny to help me undress | O |
| And decently put me to bed | T |
| The last humble solace I wait | T |
| Would Heaven indulge me the boon | B |
| Some dream less unkind than my fate | T |
| In a vision transport me to Town | B |
| Clarissa meantime weds a beau | W |
| Who decks her in golden array | U |
| The finest at every fine show | W |
| And flaunts it at Park and at Play | U |
| Whilst here we are left in the lurch | X |
| Forgot and secluded from view | Y |
| Unless when some bumpkin at church | X |
| Stares wistfully over the pew | Y |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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