Epigram On Hearing Mr. **** Boast That He Could Translate Virgil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBCAA D| Thou able boaster Virgil to translate | A |
| Can'st thou then be so vain so shallow pated | A |
| To a far higher intellectual state | A |
| Coxcomb thou must thyself be first translated | A |
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| A lady had a sickly son | B |
| A skeleton but for his skin | C |
| Her pretty maid he woo'd and won | B |
| The mother chid him for his sin | C |
| 'Her charms were not to be withstood | A |
| Too tempting for frail flesh and blood | A |
| As you dear Ma'am must fairly own ' | - |
| That's no excuse for skin and bone | D |
Thomas Oldham
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