Epigram. Auri Sacra Fames Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGHIIJJKK LLMMNNOPQQRRSS| I 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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