Epigram On Hearing A Lady Talk Very Fast And Unintelligibly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDD EEFGH I JKJ KLMM KKKKFFK N OAOAK OKK K KKKKKK OOPPQ GGKK MKM| Words upon words impetuous rush along | A |
| And tread each other's brains out as they throng | A |
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| 'Admire my wife did ever mortal eyes' | B |
| Cornuto in a rapture boasting cries | B |
| 'Such a fine set of teeth of ivory view | C |
| And such a fine complexion's ivory hue | C |
| Fool hide thy head both her and thee we scorn | D |
| Oft the wife's ivory makes the husband's horn | D |
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| I'm told Sir Pigmy mimics me what then | E |
| Don't we all know that monkies mimic men | E |
| 'I cannot say your poem I admire | F |
| It wants originality and fire | G |
| Besides I find it by no means correct | H |
| You've written it in haste I should suspect ' | - |
| What do you think me then a jackass pray | I |
| 'I shall think so if you so loudly bray ' | - |
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| A worthy man of rags | J |
| Intreats for charity | K |
| A rogue of money bags | J |
| 'Pshaw it at home begins ' | - |
| Then serve thyself and me | K |
| For it will be no less | L |
| A cover to thy sins | M |
| Than to my nakedness | M |
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| The Fair one at her toilet thus exprest | K |
| The ambitious aims that swell'd her panting breast | K |
| 'Pull Fanny pull again with all your might | K |
| I must to day be laced up very tight | K |
| For to a glorious conquest I aspire | F |
| Know that two Noblemen my charms admire | F |
| Pull then good girl I'll be so tightly laced | K |
| That half a yard will measure round my waist ' | - |
| 'Hold ' Cupid cries 'for Love's for Pity's sake | N |
| You'll strangle Beauty and my bowstring break ' | - |
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| In altering thus and shortening his oration | O |
| Sure the Reporters do Lord Flimsy wrong | A |
| It well may fill his Lordship with vexation | O |
| When he has toil'd so hard to make it long | A |
| 'I've writ an epigram here read it do | K |
| The critics praise it highly what think you ' | - |
| I don't much like it 'No 'tis very fine ' | - |
| It may be to your taste 'tis not to mine | O |
| 'I say 'tis finely pointed ' Well so be it | K |
| The point may be too fine for me to see it | K |
| 'Then let me tell you Sir you must be blind ' | - |
| Many more like me I'm afraid you'll find | K |
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| Wise radicals to make it bear more fruit | K |
| They fain would tear the tree up by the root | K |
| Young trees we know may sometimes thrive transplanted | K |
| But old ones can't 'tis by all gardeners granted | K |
| 'Twill die and when the good old tree is dead | K |
| What sort of tree pray will they plant instead | K |
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| The Squire has long imagined that his son | O |
| Is deeply studying Coke and Lyttelton | O |
| They meet 'Dear Tom to see you gives me joy | P |
| How get you on in Law my clever boy | P |
| In practice too But Tom what bills you draw | Q |
| Expensive work this studying of the law ' | - |
| The sly young Templar gulls his easy Sire | G |
| O I get on Sir to my heart's desire | G |
| In chamber practice I have much to do | K |
| His answer in a certain sense is true | K |
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| To move her lover a coquetish Miss | M |
| Began to sob pretending she should faint | K |
| Her maid restored her straight by whispering this | M |
| 'I fear my lady you forget your paint ' | - |
Thomas Oldham
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