Dec 20, 2009

A Description of a City Shower | A Description of a City Shower

At a glance:

Author: Jonathan Swift
First Published: 1710
Type of Work: Mock pastoral
Genres: Poetry, Mock-heroic poetry
Subjects: England or English people, Eighteenth century, City life, London, Cities or towns, Weather, Rain

The Poem

Jonathan Swift’s “A Description of a City Shower” is a sixty-three-line poem written in thirty-one of the end-rhymed iambic pentameter couplets still known as “heroic couplets,” with the final line of iambic hexameter creating a closing triplet. (The heroic couplet was the most popular verse form of Swift’s day and takes its name from its frequent use in English translations of classical epic—or, as it was then termed, “heroic”—poetry.) Swift’s title is somewhat ironically misleading: Although he certainly provides a vivid enough description of a...

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A Description of a City Shower | A Description of a City Shower

At a glance:

The Poem

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