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 got | B |
| You may all go to pot | B |
| Had your senses been right | C |
| You'd have sent before night | C |
| As I hope to be saved | D |
| I put off being shaved | D |
| For I could not make bold | E |
| While the matter was cold | E |
| To meddle in suds | F |
| Or to put on my duds | F |
| So tell Horneck and Nesbitt | G |
| And Baker and his bit | G |
| And Kauffmann beside | H |
| And the Jessamy Bride | H |
| With the rest of the crew | I |
| The Reynoldses two | I |
| Little Comedy's face | J |
| And the Captain in lace | J |
| By the bye you may tell him | K |
| I have something to sell him | K |
| Of use I insist | L |
| When he comes to enlist | L |
| Your worships must know | M |
| That a few days ago | M |
| An order went out | N |
| For the foot guards so stout | N |
| To wear tails in high taste | O |
| Twelve inches at least | P |
| Now I've got him a scale | Q |
| To measure each tail | Q |
| To lengthen a short tail | Q |
| And a long one to curtail | Q |
| Yet how can I when vext | P |
| Thus stray from my text | P |
| Tell each other to rue | I |
| Your Devonshire crew | I |
| For sending so late | P |
| To one of my state | P |
| But 'tis Reynolds's way | R |
| From wisdom to stray | R |
| And Angelica's whim | K |
| To be frolick like him | K |
| But alas Your good worships how could they be wiser | S |
| When both have been spoil'd in to day's 'Advertiser' | S |
| OLIVER GOLDSMITH | T |
Oliver Goldsmith
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