Written At Bath To A Young Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFAAFFFFGG HHIIFF| You us'd me ill and I withdrew | A |
| Intent on satirizing you | A |
| The Muses to my Aid I call | B |
| They came and told me one and all | B |
| That I mistook their Province quite | C |
| They never sully'd what was bright | C |
| And said If Satire was my Aim | D |
| I ought to chuse another Theme | E |
| - | |
| I heard with Anger and Surprize | F |
| Begg'd they'd inspire and not advise | F |
| In vain I begg'd they all withdrew | A |
| When to my Aid a Phantom flew | A |
| And vow'd she'd give my Satire Stings | F |
| And whisper'd some resentful Things | F |
| Said You delighted all your Days | F |
| To torture her a thousand Ways | F |
| Bid me revenge her Cause and mine | G |
| And blacken you in ev'ry Line | G |
| - | |
| This I resolv'd but still in vain | H |
| We both must unreveng'd remain | H |
| For I alas remember now | I |
| I long ago had made a Vow | I |
| That should the Nine their Aid refuse | F |
| Envy should never be my Muse | F |
Mary Barber
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