Pig, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIFJKLMNOGPQQR STUVWQQDXYNQQZYA2QB2 C2QQD2E2F2BDG2H2I2DJ 2QK2QL2BQM2NN2O2NQP2 Q2R2NQE| A COLLOQUIAL POEM | A |
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| Jacob I do not like to see thy nose | B |
| Turn'd up in scornful curve at yonder pig | C |
| It would be well my friend if we like him | D |
| Were perfect in our kind And why despise | E |
| The sow born grunter He is obstinate | F |
| Thou answerest ugly and the filthiest beast | G |
| That banquets upon offal Now I pray you | H |
| Hear the pig's counsel | I |
| Is he obstinate | F |
| We must not Jacob be deceived by words | J |
| We must not take them as unheeding hands | K |
| Receive base money at the current worth | L |
| But with a just suspicion try their sound | M |
| And in the even balance weight them well | N |
| See now to what this obstinacy comes | O |
| A poor mistreated democratic beast | G |
| He knows that his unmerciful drivers seek | P |
| Their profit and not his He hath not learned | Q |
| That pigs were made for man born to be brawn'd | Q |
| And baconized that he must please to give | R |
| Just what his gracious masters please to take | S |
| Perhaps his tusks the weapons Nature gave | T |
| For self defense the general privilege | U |
| Perhaps hark Jacob dost thou hear that horn | V |
| Woe to the young posterity of Pork | W |
| Their enemy is at hand | Q |
| Again Thou say'st | Q |
| The pig is ugly Jacob look at him | D |
| Those eyes have taught the lover flattery | X |
| His face nay Jacob Jacob were it fair | Y |
| To judge a lady in her dishabille | N |
| Fancy it dressed and with saltpeter rouged | Q |
| Behold his tail my friend with curls like that | Q |
| The wanton hop marries her stately spouse | Z |
| So crisp in beauty Amoretta's hair | Y |
| Rings round her lover's soul the chains of love | A2 |
| And what is beauty but the aptitude | Q |
| Of parts harmonious Give thy fancy scope | B2 |
| And thou wilt find that no imagined change | C2 |
| Can beautify this beast Place at his end | Q |
| The starry glories of the peacock's pride | Q |
| Give him the swan's white breast for his horn hoofs | D2 |
| Shape such a foot and ankle as the waves | E2 |
| Crowded in eager rivalry to kiss | F2 |
| When Venus from the enamor'd sea arose | B |
| Jacob thou canst but make a monster of him | D |
| An alteration man could think would mar | G2 |
| His pig perfection | H2 |
| The last charge he lives | I2 |
| A dirty life Here I could shelter him | D |
| With noble and right reverend precedents | J2 |
| And show by sanction of authority | Q |
| That 'tis a very honorable thing | K2 |
| To thrive by dirty ways But let me rest | Q |
| On better ground the unanswerable defense | L2 |
| The pig is a philosopher who knows | B |
| No prejudice Dirt Jacob what is dirt | Q |
| If matter why the delicate dish that tempts | M2 |
| An o'ergorged epicure to the last morsel | N |
| That stuffs him to the throat gates is no more | N2 |
| If matter be not but as sages say | O2 |
| Spirit is all and all things visible | N |
| Are one the infinitely modified | Q |
| Think Jacob what that pig is and the mire | P2 |
| Wherein he stands knee deep | Q2 |
| And there the breeze | R2 |
| Pleads with me and has won thee to a smile | N |
| That speaks conviction O'er yon blossom'd field | Q |
| Of beans it came and thoughts of bacon rise | E |
Robert Southey
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