To A Child Of Quality Of Five Years Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHGH IJKJ LMLN JOPO QMRM| The author suppos'd forty | A |
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| Lords Knights and Squires the num'rous Band | B |
| That wear the Fair Miss Mary's Fetters | C |
| Were summon'd by her high Command | B |
| TO show their Passion by their Letters | C |
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| My Pen amongst the rest I took | D |
| Lest those bright Eyes that cannot read | E |
| Shou'd dart their kindling Fires and look | D |
| The Pow'r they have to be obey'd | F |
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| Nor Quality nor Reputation | G |
| Forbid me yet my Flame to tell | H |
| Dear Five Years old befriends my Passion | G |
| And I may Write 'till she can Spell | H |
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| For while she makes her Silk worms Beds | I |
| With all the tender things I swear | J |
| Whilst all the House my Passion reads | K |
| In Papers round her Baby's Hair | J |
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| She may receive and own my Flame | L |
| For tho' the strictest Prudes shou'd know it | M |
| She'll pass for a most virtuous Dame | L |
| And I for an unhappy Poet | N |
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| Then too alas when she shall tear | J |
| The Lines some younger Rival sends | O |
| She'll give me leave to Write I fear | P |
| And we shall still continue Friends | O |
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| For as our diff'rent Ages move | Q |
| 'Tis so ordain'd wou'd Fate but mend it | M |
| That I shall be past making Love | R |
| When she begins to comprehend it | M |
Matthew Prior
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