A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed by Jonathan Swift

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"A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" is one of Jonathan Swift's many satires, this one written in the form of an ode. It is a poem of 72 lines, written in iambic quatrameter, and divided into three long stanzas of rhyming couplets. The poem was written in 1731 and published in 1734. Subtitled "Written for the Honour of the Fair Sex," Swift's ode to feminine beauty reveals a woman made disgusting by the harsh life of a prostitute. Her beauty is revealed to be all artificial, and her real self is slowly shown to the reader as she prepares for bed.

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