An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JCJC KCLC EMEM NONO| Good people all of every sort | A |
| Give ear unto my song | B |
| And if you find it wondrous short | A |
| It cannot hold you long | B |
| - | |
| In Islington there was a man | C |
| Of whom the world might say | D |
| That still a godly race he ran | C |
| Whene'er he went to pray | D |
| - | |
| A kind and gentle heart he had | E |
| To comfort friends and foes | F |
| The naked every day he clad | E |
| When he put on his clothes | G |
| - | |
| And in that town a dog was found | H |
| As many dogs there be | I |
| Both mongrel puppy whelp and hound | H |
| And curs of low degree | I |
| - | |
| This dog and man at first were friends | J |
| But when a pique began | C |
| The dog to gain some private ends | J |
| Went mad and bit the man | C |
| - | |
| Around from all the neighbouring streets | K |
| The wond'ring neighbours ran | C |
| And swore the dog had lost its wits | L |
| To bite so good a man | C |
| - | |
| The wound it seemed both sore and sad | E |
| To every Christian eye | M |
| And while they swore the dog was mad | E |
| They swore the man would die | M |
| - | |
| But soon a wonder came to light | N |
| That showed the rogues they lied | O |
| The man recovered of the bite | N |
| The dog it was that died | O |
Oliver Goldsmith
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