Verses In Reply To An Invitation To Dinner At Dr. Baker's. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNNOPQQQQPPIIPPRR KKSST

'This 'is' a poem This 'is' a copy of verses 'A
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Your mandate I gotB
You may all go to potB
Had your senses been rightC
You'd have sent before nightC
As I hope to be savedD
I put off being shavedD
For I could not make boldE
While the matter was coldE
To meddle in sudsF
Or to put on my dudsF
So tell Horneck and NesbittG
And Baker and his bitG
And Kauffmann besideH
And the Jessamy BrideH
With the rest of the crewI
The Reynoldses twoI
Little Comedy's faceJ
And the Captain in laceJ
By the bye you may tell himK
I have something to sell himK
Of use I insistL
When he comes to enlistL
Your worships must knowM
That a few days agoM
An order went outN
For the foot guards so stoutN
To wear tails in high tasteO
Twelve inches at leastP
Now I've got him a scaleQ
To measure each tailQ
To lengthen a short tailQ
And a long one to curtailQ
Yet how can I when vextP
Thus stray from my textP
Tell each other to rueI
Your Devonshire crewI
For sending so lateP
To one of my stateP
But 'tis Reynolds's wayR
From wisdom to strayR
And Angelica's whimK
To be frolick like himK
But alas Your good worships how could they be wiserS
When both have been spoil'd in to day's 'Advertiser'S
OLIVER GOLDSMITHT

Oliver Goldsmith



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