Roxana, Or The Drawing-room. An Eclogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC CCDDEEFFGHICJJKKLCMM NOPPQQRRSSPPTTUUVVWW XXYYZRoxana from the Court returning late | A |
Sigh'd her soft sorrow at St James's gate | A |
Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast | B |
Not her own chairmen with more weight oppress'd | B |
They curse the cruel weight they're doom'd to bear | C |
She in more gentle sounds express'd her care | C |
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'Was it for this that I these roses wear | C |
For this new set the jewels for my hair | C |
Ah Princess with what zeal have I pursued | D |
Almost forgot the duty of a prude | D |
This king I never could attend too soon | E |
I miss'd my prayers to get me dress'd by noon | E |
For thee ah what for thee did I resign | F |
My passions pleasures all that e'er was mine | F |
I've sacrificed both modesty and ease | G |
Left operas and went to filthy plays | H |
Double entendres shock'd my tender ear | I |
Yet even this for thee I chose to bear | C |
In glowing youth when nature bids be gay | J |
And every joy of life before me lay | J |
By honour prompted and by pride restrain'd | K |
The pleasures of the young my soul disdain'd | K |
Sermons I sought and with a mien severe | L |
Censured my neighbours and said daily prayer | C |
Alas how changed with this same sermon mien | M |
The filthy What d'ye call it I have seen | M |
Ah royal Princess for whose sake I lost | N |
The reputation which so dear had cost | O |
I who avoided every public place | P |
When bloom and beauty bid me show my face | P |
Now near thee constant I each night abide | Q |
With never failing duty by thy side | Q |
Myself and daughters standing in a row | R |
To all the foreigners a goodly show | R |
Oft had your drawing room been sadly thin | S |
And merchants' wives close by your side had been | S |
Had I not amply fill'd the empty place | P |
And saved your Highness from the dire disgrace | P |
Yet Cockatilla's artifice prevails | T |
When all my duty and my merit fails | T |
That Cockatilla whose deluding airs | U |
Corrupts our virgins and our youth ensnares | U |
So sunk her character and lost her fame | V |
Scarce visited before your Highness came | V |
Yet for the bedchamber 'tis she you choose | W |
Whilst zeal and lame and virtue you refuse | W |
Ah worthy choice not one of all your train | X |
Which censures blast not or dishonours stain | X |
I know the Court with all its treacherous wiles | Y |
The false caresses and undoing smiles | Y |
Ah Princess learn'd in all the courtly arts | Z |
To cheat our hopes and yet to gain our hearts ' | - |
Alexander Pope
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