Epigram On Two Sisters Who Are Always Quarrelling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EEAAFFGGHHIIJJ KK L LG| Pale is Amelia's face | A |
| And red Lavinia's nose is | B |
| The sisters ever jar | C |
| 'Tis like the civil war | D |
| Between the rival roses | B |
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| On that dark theme man's genealogy | E |
| How strangely people's notions disagree | E |
| Sir Snub nose growling swears that he can trace | A |
| Strong kindred likeness to the monkey race | A |
| My Lady Graceful smiles well pleased to find | F |
| Far more resemblance to the Angelic kind | F |
| Sure the reflection from their looking glasses | G |
| Into their minds to prompt opinion passes | G |
| Would be philosophers have tried to scan | H |
| The pedigree of that odd creature man | H |
| 'We are of monkey race ' Sir Snub nose cries | I |
| Your strange assertion strikes me with surprise | I |
| I for my part the compliment decline | J |
| But do you Sir sincerely thus opine | J |
| 'I do indeed nay more I'm sure 'tis true ' | - |
| Is't possible Yet when I look on you | K |
| I verily begin to think so too | K |
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| 'Oh Doctor I've had such a headache so bad | L |
| I was fearful I should have gone out of my senses ' | - |
| I should not have wonder'd dear Ma'am if you had | L |
| You'd not have to go far to leap over those fences | G |
Thomas Oldham
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