Anacreontic To A Plumassier Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEFFFGGHI JJKKJJLL MMNNOOEEPPJJQQJJRR AASS| Fine and feathery artisan | A |
| Best of Plumists if you can | B |
| With your art so far presume | C |
| Make for me a Prince's Plume | C |
| Feathers soft and feathers rare | D |
| Such as suits a Prince to wear | D |
| - | |
| First thou downiest of men | E |
| Seek me out a fine Pea hen | E |
| Such a Hen so tall and grand | F |
| As by Juno's side might stand | F |
| If there were no cocks at hand | F |
| Seek her feathers soft as down | G |
| Fit to shine on Prince's crown | G |
| If thou canst not find them stupid | H |
| Ask the way of Prior's Cupid | I |
| - | |
| Ranging these in order due | J |
| Pluck me next an old Cuckoo | J |
| Emblem of the happy fates | K |
| Of easy kind cornuted mates | K |
| Pluck him well be sure you do | J |
| Who wouldn't be an old Cuckoo | J |
| Thus to have his plumage blest | L |
| Beaming on a Royal crest | L |
| - | |
| Bravo Plumist now what bird | M |
| Shall we find for Plume the third | M |
| You must get a learned Owl | N |
| Bleakest of black letter fowl | N |
| Bigot bird that hates the light | O |
| Foe to all that's fair and bright | O |
| Seize his quills so formed to pen | E |
| Books that shun the search of men | E |
| Books that far from every eye | P |
| In sweltered venom sleeping lie | P |
| Stick them in between the two | J |
| Proud Pea hen and Old Cuckoo | J |
| Now you have the triple feather | Q |
| Bind the kindred stems together | Q |
| With a silken tie whose hue | J |
| Once was brilliant Buff and Blue | J |
| Sullied now alas how much | R |
| Only fit for Yarmouth's touch | R |
| - | |
| There enough thy task is done | A |
| Present worthy George's Son | A |
| Now beneath in letters neat | S |
| Write I SERVE and all's complete | S |
Thomas Moore
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