The Rape Of The Trap. A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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'Twas in a land of learning	A
The Muse's favourite city	B
Such pranks of late	C
Were play'd by a rat	D
As tempt one to be witty	B
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All in a college study	B
Where books were in great plenty	B
This rat would devour	E
More sense in an hour	E
Than I could write in twenty	B
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Corporeal food 'tis granted	F
Serves vermin less refined	G
Sir But this a rat of taste	H
All other rats surpass'd	I
And he prey'd on the food of the mind Sir	E
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His breakfast half the morning	A
He constantly attended	F
And when the bell rung	J
For evening song	K
His dinner scarce was ended	F
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He spared not even heroics	L
On which we poets pride us	M
And would make no more	N
Of King Arthurs by the score	N
Than all the world beside does	O
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In books of geography	B
He made the maps to flutter	E
A river or a sea	B
Was to him a dish of tea	B
And a kingdom bread and butter	E
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But if some mawkish potion	P
Might chance to overdose him	Q
To check its rage	R
He took a page	R
Of logic to compose him	Q
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A Trap in haste and anger	E
Was brought you need not doubt on't	B
And such was the gin	S
Were a lion once got in	S
He could not I think get out on't	B
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With cheese not books 'twas baited	T
The fact I'll not belie it	U
Since none I tell you that	D
Whether scholar or rat	D
Minds books when he has other diet	V
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But more of Trap and bait Sir	E
Why should I sing or either	E
Since the rat who knew the sleight	W
Came in the dead of night	W
And dragg'd them away together	E
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Both Trap and bait were vanish'd	X
Through a fracture in the flooring	A
Which though so trim	Q
It now may seem	Y
Had then a dozen or more in	S
	-
Then answer this ye sages	Z
Nor deem I mean to wrong ye	B
Had the rat which thus did seize on	A2
The Trap less claim to reason	P
Than many a skull among ye	B
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Dan Prior's mice I own it	U
Were vermin of condition	P
But this rat who merely learn'd	B2
What rats alone concern'd	B2
Was the greater politician	P
	-
That England's topsyturvy	B
Is clear from these mishaps Sir	E
Since Traps we may determine	P
Will no longer take our vermin	S
But vermin take our Traps Sir	E
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Let sophs by rats infested	F
Then trust in cats to catch them	C2
Lest they grow as learn'd as we	B
In our studies where d' ye see	B
No mortal sits to watch them	C2
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Good luck betide our captains	D2
Good luck betide our cats Sir	E
And grant that the one	P
May quell the Spanish Don	A2
And the other destroy our rats Sir	E

William Shenstone

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