The Double Transformation, A Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Secluded from domestic strife	A
Jack Book worm led a college life	A
A fellowship at twenty five	B
Made him the happiest man alive	B
He drank his glass and crack'd his joke	C
And freshmen wonder'd as he spoke	C
	-
Such pleasures unalloy'd with care	D
Could any accident impair	D
Could Cupid's shaft at length transfix	E
Our swain arriv'd at thirty six	E
O had the archer ne'er come down	F
To ravage in a country town	F
Or Flavia been content to stop	G
At triumphs in a Fleet street shop	G
O had her eyes forgot to blaze	H
Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze	H
O But let exclamation cease	I
Her presence banish'd all his peace	I
So with decorum all things carried	J
Miss frown'd and blush'd and then was married	J
	-
Need we expose to vulgar sight	K
The raptures of the bridal night	K
Need we intrude on hallow'd ground	L
Or draw the curtains clos'd around	L
Let it suffice that each had charms	M
He clasp'd a goddess in his arms	M
And though she felt his usage rough	N
Yet in a man 'twas well enough	N
	-
The honey moon like lightning flew	O
The second brought its transports too	O
A third a fourth were not amiss	P
The fifth was friendship mix'd with bliss	P
But when a twelvemonth pass'd away	Q
Jack found his goddess made of clay	Q
Found half the charms that deck'd her face	R
Arose from powder shreds or lace	R
But still the worst remain'd behind	S
That very face had robb'd her mind	S
	-
Skill'd in no other arts was she	T
But dressing patching repartee	T
And just as humour rose or fell	U
By turns a slattern or a belle	U
'Tis true she dress'd with modern grace	R
Half naked at a ball or race	R
But when at home at board or bed	V
Five greasy nightcaps wrapp'd her head	V
Could so much beauty condescend	W
To be a dull domestic friend	W
Could any curtain lectures bring	X
To decency so fine a thing	X
In short by night 'twas fits or fretting	X
By day 'twas gadding or coquetting	X
Fond to be seen she kept a bevy	T
Of powder'd coxcombs at her levy	T
The 'squire and captain took their stations	Y
And twenty other near relations	Y
Jack suck'd his pipe and often broke	X
A sigh in suffocating smoke	X
While all their hours were pass'd between	Z
Insulting repartee or spleen	Z
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Thus as her faults each day were known	A2
He thinks her features coarser grown	A2
He fancies every vice she shows	B2
Or thins her lip or points her nose	B2
Whenever rage or envy rise	C2
How wide her mouth how wild her eyes	C2
He knows not how but so it is	D2
Her face is grown a knowing phiz	D2
And though her fops are wond'rous civil	E2
He thinks her ugly as the devil	E2
	-
Now to perplex the ravell'd noose	D2
As each a different way pursues	D2
While sullen or loquacious strife	A
Promis'd to hold them on for life	A
That dire disease whose ruthless power	F2
Withers the beauty's transient flower	F2
Lo the small pox whose horrid glare	D
Levell'd its terrors at the fair	D
And rifling ev'ry youthful grace	D2
Left but the remnant of a face	D2
	-
The glass grown hateful to her sight	K
Reflected now a perfect fright	K
Each former art she vainly tries	D2
To bring back lustre to her eyes	D2
In vain she tries her paste and creams	D2
To smooth her skin or hide its seams	D2
Her country beaux and city cousins	D2
Lovers no more flew off by dozens	D2
The 'squire himself was seen to yield	G2
And e'en the captain quit the field	G2
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Poor Madam now condemn'd to hack	X
The rest of life with anxious Jack	X
Perceiving others fairly flown	A2
Attempted pleasing him alone	A2
Jack soon was dazzl'd to behold	H2
Her present face surpass the old	H2
With modesty her cheeks are dy'd	I2
Humility displaces pride	I2
For tawdry finery is seen	Z
A person ever neatly clean	Z
No more presuming on her sway	Q
She learns good nature every day	Q
Serenely gay and strict in duty	T
Jack finds his wife a perfect beauty	T

Oliver Goldsmith

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