An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ| The poet asks and Phillis can't refuse | A |
| To show th' obedience of the Infant muse | A |
| She knows the Quail of most inviting taste | B |
| Fed Israel's army in the dreary waste | B |
| And what's on Britain's royal standard borne | C |
| But the tall graceful rampant Unicorn | C |
| The Emerald with a vivid verdure glows | D |
| Among the gems which regal crowns compose | D |
| Boston's a town polite and debonair | E |
| To which the beaux and beauteous nymphs repair | E |
| Each Helen strikes the mind with sweet surprise | F |
| While living lightning flashes from her eyes | F |
| See young Euphorbus of the Dardan line | G |
| By Manelaus' hand to death resign | G |
| The well known peer of popular applause | H |
| Is C m zealous to support our laws | H |
| Quebec now vanquish'd must obey | I |
| She too much annual tribute pay | I |
| To Britain of immortal fame | J |
| And add new glory to her name | J |
Phillis Wheatley
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