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THE SILKEN SNAKE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOR SPORT MY JULIA THREW A LACE
Last Line: BUT THOUGH IT SCAR'D, IT DID NOT BITE.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; PRACTICAL JOKES; SNAKES; PRANKS; SERPENTS; VIPERS;
For sport my Julia threw a Lace
Of silke and silver at my face:
Watchet the silke was; and did make
A shew, as if 't 'ad been a snake:
The suddenness did me affright;
But though it scar'd, it did not bite.



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