To A Child Of Quality, Five Years Old, The Author Suppos'd Forty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKM INON PLQL| Lords knights and squires the num'rous band | A |
| That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters | B |
| Were summon'd by her high command | A |
| To show their passions by their letters | B |
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| My pen amongst the rest I took | C |
| Lest those bright eyes that cannot read | D |
| Should dart their kindling fires and look | C |
| The pow'r they have to be obey'd | E |
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| Nor quality nor reputation | F |
| Forbid me yet my flame to tell | G |
| Dear Five years old befriends my passion | F |
| And I may write till she can spell | G |
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| For while she makes her silk worms beds | H |
| With all the tender things I swear | I |
| Whilst all the house my passion reads | J |
| In papers round her baby's hair | I |
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| She may receive and own my flame | K |
| For though the strictest prudes should know it | L |
| She'll pass for a most virtuous dame | K |
| And I for an unhappy poet | M |
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| Then too alas when she shall tear | I |
| The lines some younger rival sends | N |
| She'll give me leave to write I fear | O |
| And we shall still continue friends | N |
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| For as our different ages move | P |
| 'Tis so ordain'd would Fate but mend it | L |
| That I shall be past making love | Q |
| When she begins to comprehend it | L |
Matthew Prior
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