To A Fly, On The Bosom Of Chloe, While Sleeping. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFH DADA IHIHCome away come away little fly | A |
Don't disturb the sweet calm of love's nest | B |
If you do I protest you shall die | A |
And your tomb be that beautiful breast | B |
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Don't tickle the girl in her sleep | C |
Don't cause so much beauty to sigh | A |
If she frown all the Graces will weep | C |
If she weep half the Graces will die | A |
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Pretty fly do not tickle her so | D |
How delighted to teaze her you seem | E |
Titillation is dangerous I know | D |
And may cause the dear creature to dream | E |
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She may dream of some horrible brute | F |
Of some genii or fairy built spot | G |
Or perhaps the prohibited fruit | F |
Or perhaps of I cannot tell what | H |
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Now she 'wakes steal a kiss and begone | D |
Life is precious away little fly | A |
Should your rudeness provoke her to scorn | D |
You'll meet death from the glance of her eye | A |
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Were I ask'd by fair Chloe to say | I |
How I felt as the flutt'rer I chid | H |
I should own as I drove it away | I |
I wish'd to be there in it's stead | H |
Thomas Gent
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