Lines Written After A Walk Before Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAAEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLLAAAA| Tho' much averse dear Jack to flicker | A |
| To find a likeness for friend V ker | A |
| I've made thro' earth and air and sea | B |
| A voyage of discovery | B |
| And let me add to ward off strife | C |
| For V kers and for V kers' wife | C |
| She large and round beyond belief | D |
| A superfluity of beef | D |
| Her mind and body of a piece | E |
| And both composed of kitchen grease | E |
| In short dame Truth might safely dub her | A |
| Vulgarity enshrined in blubber | A |
| He meagre bit of littleness | E |
| All snuff and musk and politesse | E |
| So thin that strip him of his clothing | F |
| He'd totter on the edge of nothing | F |
| In case of foe he well might hide | G |
| Snug in the collops of her side | G |
| Ah then what simile will suit | H |
| Spindle leg in great jack boot | H |
| Pismire crawling in a rut | I |
| Or a spigot in a butt | I |
| Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile | J |
| When Madam Memory with a smile | J |
| Thus touched my ear 'Why sure I ween | K |
| In London streets thou oft hast seen | K |
| The very image of this pair | L |
| A little ape with huge she bear | L |
| Linked by hapless chain together | A |
| An unlicked mass the one the other | A |
| An antic huge with nimble crupper' | A |
| But stop my Muse for here comes supper | A |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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