A True Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHII FFJJ KKCCLL MMNNOPQQ BBCCKC CCGGCCCC CCRRFF SSTTCCUUDD CCVVWWXX KKCC YYCCZZA2A2 MM B2B2| A mother who vast Pleasure finds | A |
| In modelling her Childrens Minds | A |
| With whom in exquisite Delight | B |
| She passes many a Winter Night | B |
| Mingles in ev'ry Play to find | C |
| What Byass Nature gave the Mind | C |
| Resolving thence to take her Aim | D |
| To guide them to the Realms of Fame | D |
| And wisely make those Realms their Way | E |
| To Regions of eternal Day | E |
| Each boist'rous Passion to controul | F |
| And early humanize the Soul | F |
| In simple Tales beside the Fire | G |
| The noblest Notions would inspire | H |
| Her Children conscious of her Care | I |
| Transported hung around her Chair | I |
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| Of Scripture Heroes she would tell | F |
| Whose Names they lisp'd ere they could spell | F |
| The Mother then delighted smiles | J |
| And shews the Story on the Tiles | J |
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| At other Times her Themes would be | K |
| The Sages of Antiquity | K |
| Who left immortal Names behind | C |
| By proving Blessings to their Kind | C |
| Again she takes another Scope | L |
| And tells of Addison and Pope | L |
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| Studious to let her Children know | M |
| The various Turns of Things below | M |
| How Virtue here was oft oppress'd | N |
| To shine more glorious with the Bless'd | N |
| Told Tully's and the Gracchi's Doom | O |
| The Patriots and the Pride of Rome | P |
| Then bless'd the Drapier's happier Fate | Q |
| Who sav'd and lives to guard the State | Q |
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| Some Comedies gave great Delight | B |
| And entertain'd them many a Night | B |
| Others could no Admittance find | C |
| Forbid as Poison to the Mind | C |
| Those Authors Wit and Sense said she | K |
| But heighten their Impiety | C |
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| This happy Mother met one Day | C |
| The Book of Fables writ by Gay | C |
| And told her Children Here's a Treasure | G |
| A Fund of Wisdom and of Pleasure | G |
| Such Morals and so finely writ | C |
| Such Decency good Sense and Wit | C |
| Well has the Poet found the Art | C |
| To raise the Mind and mend the Heart | C |
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| Her fav'rite Son the Volume seiz'd | C |
| And as he read seem'd highly pleas'd | C |
| Made such Reflections ev'ry Page | R |
| The Mother thought above his Age | R |
| Delighted read but scarce was able | F |
| To finish the concluding Fable | F |
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| What ails my Child the Mother cries | S |
| Whose Sorrows now have fill'd your Eyes | S |
| O dear Mamma can he want Friends | T |
| Who writes for such exalted Ends | T |
| O base degen'rate human Kind | C |
| Had I a Fortune to my Mind | C |
| Should Gay complain But now alas | U |
| Thro' what a World am I to pass | U |
| Where Friendship is an empty Name | D |
| And Merit scarcely paid in Fame | D |
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| Resolv'd to lull his Woes to Rest | C |
| She tells him He should hope the best | C |
| This has been yet Gay's Case I own | V |
| But now his Merit's amply known | V |
| Content that tender Heart of thine | W |
| He'll be the Care of Caroline | W |
| Who thus instructs the royal Race | X |
| Must have a Pension or a Place | X |
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| Mamma if you were Queen says he | K |
| And such a Book were writ for me | K |
| I find 'tis so much to your Taste | C |
| That Gay would keep his Coach at least | C |
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| My Son what you suppose is true | Y |
| I see its Excellence in you | Y |
| Poets who write to mend the Mind | C |
| A royal Recompence should find | C |
| But I am barr'd by Fortune's Frowns | Z |
| From the best Privilege of Crowns | Z |
| The glorious godlike Pow'r to bless | A2 |
| And raise up Merit in Distress | A2 |
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| But dear Mamma I long to know | M |
| Were you the Queen what you'd bestow | M |
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| What I'd bestow says she my Dear | B2 |
| At least a thousand Pounds a Year | B2 |
Mary Barber
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