Young Jessica Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFGF HIHICFCF| Young Jessica sat all the day | A |
| With heart o'er idle love thoughts pining | B |
| Her needle bright beside her lay | A |
| So active once now idly shining | B |
| Ah Jessy 'tis in idle hearts | C |
| That love and mischief are most nimble | D |
| The safest shield against the darts | C |
| Of Cupid is Minerva's thimble | D |
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| The child who with a magnet plays | E |
| Well knowing all its arts so wily | F |
| The tempter near a needle lays | E |
| And laughing says We'll steal it slily | F |
| The needle having naught to do | G |
| Is pleased to let the magnet wheedle | F |
| Till closer closer come the two | G |
| And off at length elopes the needle | F |
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| Now had this needle turned its eye | H |
| To some gay reticule's construction | I |
| It ne'er had strayed from duty's tie | H |
| Nor felt the magnet's sly seduction | I |
| Thus girls would you keep quiet hearts | C |
| Your snowy fingers must be nimble | F |
| The safest shield against the darts | C |
| Of Cupid is Minerva's thimble | F |
Thomas Moore
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