A Riddle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KGKG| Upon a Bed of humble clay | A |
| In all her Garments loose | B |
| A Prostitute my Mother lay | A |
| To ev'ry Comer's use | B |
| 'Till one Gallant in heat of love | C |
| His Own Peculiar made her | D |
| And to a Region far above | C |
| And softer Beds convey'd her | D |
| But in his Absence to his Place | E |
| His rougher Rival came | F |
| And with a cold constrain'd Embrace | E |
| Begat me on the Dame | F |
| I then appear'd to Publick View | G |
| A Creature wondrous bright | H |
| But shortly perishable too | G |
| Inconstant nice and light | H |
| On Feathers not together fast | I |
| I wildly flew about | J |
| And from my Father's country past | I |
| To find my Mother out | J |
| Where her Gallant of her beguil'd | K |
| With me enamour'd grew | G |
| And I that was my Mother's Child | K |
| Brought forth my Mother too | G |
Thomas Parnell
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