Literary Lady, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK| What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex | A |
| Whom maids and metaphors conspire to vex | A |
| In studious dishabille behold her sit | B |
| A lettered gossip and a household wit | B |
| At once invoking though for different views | C |
| Her gods her cook her milliner and muse | C |
| Round her strewed room a frippery chaos lies | D |
| A checkered wreck of notable and wise | D |
| Bills books caps couplets combs a varied mass | E |
| Oppress the toilet and obscure the glass | E |
| Unfinished here an epigram is laid | F |
| And there a mantua maker's bill unpaid | F |
| There new born plays foretaste the town's applause | G |
| There dormant patterns pine for future gauze | G |
| A moral essay now is all her care | H |
| A satire next and then a bill of fare | H |
| A scene she now projects and now a dish | I |
| Here Act the First and here Remove with Fish | I |
| Now while this eye in a fine frenzy rolls | J |
| That soberly casts up a bill for coals | J |
| Black pins and daggers in one leaf she sticks | K |
| And tears and threads and bowls and thimbles mix | K |
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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