Epigram: Auri Sacra Fames Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGHIIJJKK LLMMNNOPQQRRSSI knew a being once his peaked head | A |
With a few lank and greasy hairs was spread | A |
His visage blue in length was like your own | B |
Seen in the convex of a table spoon | C |
His mouth or rather gash athwart his face | D |
To stop at either ear had just the grace | D |
A hideous rift his teeth were all canine | E |
And just like Death's in Milton was his grin | F |
One shilling and one fourteen penny leg | G |
This shorter was than that and not so big | H |
He had and they when meeting at his knees | I |
An angle formed of ninety eight degrees | I |
Nature in scheming how his back to vary | J |
A hint had taken from the dromedary | J |
His eyes an inward screwing vision threw | K |
Striving each other through his nose to view | K |
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His intellect was just one ray above | L |
The idiot Cymon's ere he fell in love | L |
At school they Taraxippus called the wight | M |
The Misses when they met him shriek'd with fright | M |
But spite of all that Nature had denied | N |
When sudden Fortune made the cub her pride | N |
And gave him twenty thousand pounds a year | O |
Then from the pretty Misses you might hear | P |
His face was not the finest and indeed | Q |
He was a little they must own in kneed | Q |
His shoulders certainly were rather high | R |
But then he had a most expressive eye | R |
Nor were their hearts by outward charms inclined | S |
Give them the higher beauties of the mind | S |
Thomas Gent
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